Octave Feuillet

Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of female characters, analyses of characters' psychologies and feelings, and his reserved but witty prose style. His most popular work remains his 1858 novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (The Story of a Poor Young Man), which has been adapted for film many times by Italian, French, and Argentinian directors.

Biography Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father, Jacques Feuillet, was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. Feuillet inherited some of his father's nervous excitability, though not to the same degree. He was sent to Lycée Louis-le Grand in Paris, where he achieved high distinction, assuring him of a good post in the diplomatic service. After the sale of Les Paillers, Feuillet spent his last years as a nomad owing to depression and other health problems. Not long after the publication of his final book, Honneur d'artiste, he died in Paris on 29 December 1890.

Filmography , directed by Mario Caserini (Italy, 1911, short film, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) Un Roman Parisien, directed by (France, 1913, short film, based on the play Un Roman Parisien) , directed by Frederick A. Thomson (1916, based on the play Un Roman Parisien) Honneur d'artiste, directed by Jean Kemm (France, 1917, based on the novel Honneur d'artiste) The Lord of Hohenstein, directed by Richard Oswald (Germany, 1917, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) Hier et aujourd'hui, directed by (France, 1918, based on the play La Belle au bois dormant) Júlia, directed by Alfréd Deésy (Hungary, 1918, based on the play Julie) , directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky (Russia, 1918, based on the novel La Veuve) Dalila, directed by (Italy, 1919, based on the play Dalila) The Shadow, directed by Roberto Roberti (Italy, 1920) The Story of a Poor Young Man, directed by Amleto Palermi (Italy, 1920, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) The Sphinx, directed by Roberto Roberti (Italy, 1920, based on the play Le Sphinx) Giulia di Trécoeur, directed by Camillo De Riso (Italy, 1921, based on the novel Julia de Trécœur) , directed by Gaston Ravel (Germany/France, 1927, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) A Parisian Romance, directed by Chester M. Franklin (1932, based on the play Un Roman Parisien) , directed by Abel Gance (France, 1935, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) Story of a Poor Young Man, directed by Luis Bayón Herrera (Argentina, 1942, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) , directed by Guido Brignone (Italy, 1942, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) , directed by Cesare Canevari (Italy, 1958, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) Story of a Poor Young Man, directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry (Argentina, 1968, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre) , directed by Cesare Canevari (Italy, 1974, based on the novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre)