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He was born in 1808 at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche in Lower Normandy, France.
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He was born in 1808 at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche in Lower Normandy, France.
His early education was in Valognes, and in 1829 he graduated from the Collège Stanislas in Paris.
He then studied law in Caen.
In Caen he founded a short-lived magazine, the Revue de Caen.
His style has been described as a "mixture of tiger's blood and honey, " and his bizarre imagination has a love for the sinister, the blasphemous, and the diabolical.
The sadistic imagination, the prevalence of rape and incest, and the satanic mysticism of his novels brought down on him the severe displeasure of the church, though he persisted in declaring his piety.
His greatest successes as a literary writer date from 1852 onwards, when he became an influential literary critic at the Bonapartist paper Le Pays, helping to rehabilitate Balzac and effectually promoting Stendhal, Flaubert, and Baudelaire.
In later years he became a more pronounced reactionary, fighting the growth of realism, "Art for Art's sake, " and the bluestockings.
Outstanding among his voluminous writings are Amaïdée (1890), Ce qui ne meurt pas (1884) (English translation, formerly attributed to Oscar Wilde, What Never Dies, 1909), Du dandysme et de G. Brummell (1842 - 1851) (The Anatomy of Dandyism with some Observations on Beau Brummel, 1928), Une vieille maîtressemaitresse (1851) ("An Old Mistress"), L'Ensorcelée (1854) (Bewitched, 1928), Un Prêtremariémarie (1865) ("A Married Priest"), Les Diaboliques (1874) (The Diaboliques, 1925), and Une Histoire sans nom (1882) (A Story Without a Name, 1891).
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As a young man, he was a liberal and an atheist, and his early writings present religion as something that meddles in human affairs only to complicate and pervert matters. In the early 1840s, however, he began to frequent the Catholic. In 1846 he converted to Roman Catholicism. Barbey d'Aurevilly held extreme Catholic opinions.
He was too erratic, undisciplined, and dogmatic to be among the best of critics. He wore dandified dress.