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1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paulfval.jpg]]
2	->''"That insignificant literature sometimes has higher aspiration, but it never declares them, '''and that is the secret of its power'''."''
3	--> (Faval's defence of popular literature)
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5	Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (30 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist.
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7	He was the author of popular {{swashbuckler}} novels such as ''Le Loup Blanc'' (1843) and the perennial best-seller ''Literature/LeBossu'' (1857). He also penned the seminal vampire fiction novels ''Le Chevalier Ténèbre'' (1860), ''[[Literature/TheVampireCountess La Vampire]]'' and ''[[Literature/VampireCity La Ville Vampire]]'', and wrote several celebrated novels about his native Brittany and Mont Saint-Michel, such as ''La Fée des Grèves'' (1850).
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9	Féval's greatest claim to fame, however, is as one of the fathers of modern crime fiction. Because of its themes and characters, his novel ''[[Literature/JohnDevil Jean Diable]]'' (1862) can claim to be the world's first modern novel of detective fiction. His masterpiece was ''[[Literature/TheBlackCoats Les Habits Noirs]]'' (1863–1875), a criminal saga comprising eleven novels.
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11	After losing his fortune in a financial scandal, Féval became a born-again Christian, stopped writing crime thrillers, and began to write religious novels, leaving the tale of the ''Habits Noirs'' uncompleted.
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13	His son, Paul Féval, fils (or Paul Féval Jr.) became a writer himself, and wrote prequels and sequels to ''Le Bossu''.
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15	!!Works by Paul Féval on this wiki include:
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17	[[index]]
18	* ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheNight''
19	* ''Literature/TheVampireCountess''
20	* ''Literature/LeBossu''
21	* ''Literature/{{Knightshade}}''
22	* ''Literature/JohnDevil''
23	* ''Literature/VampireCity''
24	* ''Literature/TheBlackCoats''
25	[[/index]]
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27	!!Adaptations of his works on TV Tropes include:
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29	* ''DerivativeWorks/LeBossu'':
30	** ''Film/{{Le Bossu\|1959}}'' (1959)
31	** ''Film/OnGuard'' (''Le Bossu'', 1997)

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