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Raoul Vèze
1864–1935
A lively French man of letters with a taste for hidden histories, scandalous memoirs, and the world of Casanova. His books wander through court life, erotic folklore, and the private side of European history.
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Le Baiser en Grèce
by Raoul Vèze
About the author
Born in 1864, Raoul Vèze was a French writer and editor remembered for historical and literary works that often explored the more secretive side of society. Library records and author pages connect him especially with studies of Casanova, and with books on court life, love, and social customs from earlier centuries.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms Bagneux de Villeneuve and Jean Hervez. His published works include titles on French and Russian storytelling, ancient Rome and Greece, and the worlds of courtesans, favorites, and private memoirs, showing a clear interest in the borderland between scholarship, curiosity, and popular history.
Sources do not fully agree on his death year: some library records list 1935, while the Bibliothèque nationale de France and related records list 1946. For that reason, it is safest to describe him as an author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose books helped preserve a colorful, often unconventional corner of French historical writing.