Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Barbey d'Aurevilly
Portrait by Émile Lévy, 1882.
Born	Jules Amédée Barbey (1808-11-02)2 November 1808 Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Normandy, France
Died	23 April 1889(1889-04-23) (aged 80) Paris, France
Resting place	Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, critic
Period	1825–1889
Literary movement	Realism, Decadence, "Dandyism"
Notable works	Les Diaboliques
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Leon Bloy, and Marcel Proust.