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Charles Rabou

1803–1870

A lively figure in 19th-century French literary life, he wrote novels, worked as a journalist, and moved in the same Parisian circles as Honoré de Balzac. He is especially remembered for completing unfinished work left behind by Balzac after the novelist's death.

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Contes bruns

Contes bruns

by Honoré de Balzac, Philarète Chasles, Charles Rabou

About the author

Born in 1803, Charles Rabou was a French novelist and journalist whose career unfolded in the busy literary world of 19th-century Paris. He wrote fiction of his own while also contributing to the press, building a reputation as a working man of letters rather than a distant literary monument.

Rabou is most often associated with Honoré de Balzac. After Balzac died, Rabou was entrusted with completing and preparing some unfinished material connected with La Comédie humaine, which linked his name closely to one of the great projects of French literature.

He died in 1871. Although he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, his work and his connection to Balzac make him an interesting part of the story of French literary culture in the 1800s.