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Ernest Feydeau
1821–1873
Best known for the once-scandalous novel Fanny, he was a French writer whose literary fame mixed with interests in finance and archaeology. He is also remembered as the father of playwright Georges Feydeau.
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Fanny: estudo
by Ernest Feydeau
About the author
Born in Paris on March 16, 1821, he began his literary career with the poetry collection Les Nationales in 1844. After an early turn toward finance and archaeology, he returned to literature and found major success with Fanny in 1858, a novel that drew wide attention in France.
He continued writing novels and also worked as an archaeologist, collector, stockbroker, and newspaper director. Accounts of his life consistently describe him as a notably varied figure whose career moved between literature, the art world, and business.
He died in Paris in 1873. Beyond his own books, he is often noted today as the father of Georges Feydeau, the celebrated playwright, but Ernest Feydeau's own reputation rests on the sharp, fashionable fiction that made him a recognizable name in 19th-century French letters.