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Victor Hénaux

A 19th-century Belgian lawyer and writer, he is best remembered for a sharp, satirical work that stirred debate well beyond his own time. His name is especially familiar to Brazilian readers because Machado de Assis translated one of his best-known texts.

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Quéda que as Mulheres Têm para os Tolos

Quéda que as Mulheres Têm para os Tolos

by Victor Hénaux

About the author

Georges-Victor Hénaux was born in Liège in 1822 and died there in 1896. Sources identify him as a Belgian lawyer and writer, and he wrote in French.

His best-known work is De l’amour des femmes pour les sots, a satirical essay first published in the late 1850s. The book's witty, provocative argument gave it a long afterlife and helped make Hénaux known outside Belgium.

In Brazil, his reputation is closely tied to Queda que as Mulheres Têm para os Tolos, Machado de Assis's Portuguese translation of that work. Because of that connection, Hénaux remains an interesting figure for readers curious about literary satire, translation, and the wider world around Machado's early career.