Jules Fleury-Husson
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Jules Fleury-Husson (1821-89), known by his pseudonym Champfleury, was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer, born at Laon. His early work was an essential, if accidental, contribution to the naturalistic movement in French fiction, though most of his novels are romantic. In these he appears as a quiet and genial observer of the follies of mankind, not a satirist of its vices.
In Chien-Caillou (1847), and especially in his best novel, Les bourgeois de Molinchart (1854), he forms a most interesting connection link between Balzac in his Scènes de la vie de province and Flaubert in the epoch-making Madame Bovary (1856). Champfleury wrote also three volumes of Etudes littéraires, and a Bibliographie céramique, based on the collections of the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, of which, in 1872, he was made custodian.
[edit] Publications
- Troubat, Souvenirs sur Champfleury et le Réalisme (Paris, 1905)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
