Gérard de Nerval biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Gérard de Nerval

Author Name:

Gérard de Nerval

Born As:

Other Names:

Pseudonym of Gerard Labrunie.

Born:

1808

Died:

1855




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Poet, Essayist and Translator                          
Selected Works:

Les faux saulniers - 1850
Voyage en Orient - 1851, resulted from his extended voyage of 1842 to Cairo and Beirut.
La Bohème Galante - 1852
Les Nuits d'Octobre - 1852
Sylvie - 1853
Petits châteaux de Bohême - 1853
Les Filles du Feu - 1854, a volume of short stories.
Les Chimères poems appended to Les Filles de Feu, translated by Mark Lamoureux
Aurélia - 1855, his fantasy-ridden interior autobiography— "Our dreams are a second life," he wrote— which influenced the Surrealists.
Promenades et Souvenirs - 1854–56.                          
                          
                          
Nerval had a pet lobster named Thibault which he took for walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon.