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 | !!Works by Paul Féval on this wiki include: |
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15 | [[index]] |
16 | * ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheNight'' |
17 | * ''Literature/TheVampireCountess'' |
18 | * ''Literature/LeBossu'' |
19 | * ''Literature/{{Knightshade}}'' |
20 | * ''Literature/JohnDevil'' |
21 | * ''Literature/VampireCity'' |
22 | * ''Literature/TheBlackCoats'' |
23 | [[/index]] |
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25 | !!Adaptations of his works on TV Tropes include: |
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27 | * ''DerivativeWorks/LeBossu'': |
28 | ** ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}'' (1959) |
29 | ** ''Film/OnGuard'' (''Le Bossu'', 1997) |
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