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    Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved...
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    Cahiers Octave Mirbeau is a French literary journal founded in 1994 by French scholar and Octave Mirbeau specialist Pierre Michel. The journal is based...
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  • the main character in the French novel The Torture Garden (1899) by Octave Mirbeau. Clara, who has no last name or civil status, is an English woman with...
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    Célestine is the main character and the narrator of the French novel by Octave Mirbeau, The Diary of a Chambermaid (fr. Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)...
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    Octave Mirbeau is an 1895 plaster relief by Auguste Rodin of the writer Octave Mirbeau, now in the Museo Soumaya. He had got to know him thanks to The...
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    characters in the 1892-93 novel Dans le ciel (In the Sky), by French writer Octave Mirbeau. He is the friend of the embedded narrator, Georges, to whom he has...
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    people got involved in the fight for retrial. These included the authors Octave Mirbeau (his first article was published three days after Zola) and Anatole...
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  • about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet and published...
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    The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel) (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    novel by Octave Mirbeau, published during the Dreyfus Affair. First published in serialized form in L’Écho de Paris from 1891 to 1892, Mirbeau’s novel was...
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    Le Calvaire (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and published by Ollendorff in 1886. Le Calvaire is a largely autobiographical novel, in which Mirbeau romanticizes his...
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    Abbé Jules (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and published by Ollendorff in 1888. After reading Dostoïevsky, Mirbeau plumbs the depths of psychology...
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    Foyer), is a French three-act comedy by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, written in collaboration with Thadée Natanson. It was performed in...
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    Les Mauvais Bergers (category Plays by Octave Mirbeau)
    tragedy, in five acts, by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in December 1897 on the stage of Théâtre de la Renaissance...
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    Sébastien Roch (novel) (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and published by Charpentier in 1890. Last French edition : L'Age d'Homme...
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    Dans le ciel (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. First published in serialized installments in L'Écho de Paris between...
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  • L'Amour de la femme vénale (category Works by Octave Mirbeau)
    femme vénale is the French title of a brief essay by French writer Octave Mirbeau on prostitution. Originally published in Bulgarian in Plovdiv, Bulgaria...
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    Dingo (novel) (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    Dingo is a 1913 novel by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. Completed by Mirbeau's long-time friend Léon Werth, when the author's ill health...
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  • straps. An account similar to the Sonoy torture appears in the 1899 Octave Mirbeau novel The Torture Garden, and psychologist Leonard Shengold has identified...
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    La 628-E8 (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    playwright Octave Mirbeau, published by Fasquelle in 1907. Part travelogue, part fantasy, part cultural commentary and critique, Mirbeau's book highlights...
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    in 1891 there was a retrospective exhibition in Brussels. In 1892, Octave Mirbeau wrote that Van Gogh's suicide was an "infinitely sadder loss for art ...
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    The Torture Garden (category Novels by Octave Mirbeau)
    is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel...
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    artist's estate unrecorded: (F453) (private collection). Sold 1891 to Octave Mirbeau, Paris, (via Tanguy, Paris) for £12 (about £1,300 in 2013 £). Sold 1996...
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  • Jean Roule (category Octave Mirbeau characters)
    Jean Roule is the main fictional character in Octave Mirbeau’s proletarian tragedy, Les Mauvais Bergers (The Bad Shepherds) (1897). During the first performance...
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    Isidore Lechat (category Octave Mirbeau characters)
    affaires sont les affaires (Business is business) (1903) by French writer Octave Mirbeau. Isidore Lechat, nicknamed "Lechat-Tigre", is a ruthless businessman...
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  • Lettres de l'Inde (category Works by Octave Mirbeau)
    Octave Mirbeau’s Lettres de l’Inde (Letters from India) are a series of eleven articles that appeared in 1885, first in Le Gaulois between February 22...
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  • Combats littéraires (category Works by Octave Mirbeau)
    collection of 187 articles and prefaces written by the French writer Octave Mirbeau, between 1876 and 1916, on literature, journalism, and publishing over...
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  • Père Pamphile (category Octave Mirbeau characters)
    Jules (fr. L'Abbé Jules), by the French writer Octave Mirbeau (1888). A marginal figure in Mirbeau's tale, Père Pamphile is nonetheless an extraordinary...
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  • genre was anticipated in the work of early 20th century writers such as Octave Mirbeau, Georges Bataille, and Arthur Schnitzler, who explored psychosexual...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on The Gates of Hell Octave Mirbeau, « Auguste Rodin ». The Gates of Hell, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center...
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    with anarchy. A few writers continued the decadent tradition, such as Octave Mirbeau, but Decadence was no longer a recognized movement, let alone a force...
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