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Uzanne, Octave, 1851-1931

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Personal name headingUzanne, Octave, 1851-1931
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Variant(s)Uzanne, Louis Octave, 1851-1931
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931
Birth date1851-09-14
Death date1931-10-31
Place of birthAuxerre (France)
Place of deathSaint-Cloud (France)
AffiliationSociété des bibliophiles contemporains
Profession or occupationAuthors Journalists Publishers and publishing
Found inHis L'Eventail, 1882: t.p. (Octave Uzanne)
LC data base, 12-2-83 (hdg.: Uzanne, Louis Octave, 1852-1931; usage: Octave Uzanne)
Un coeur de mére, 1836: title page (by Mm. N. Fournier et Uzanne)
Wikipedia 9 January 2017 (Octave Uzabbe; born Louis Octave Uzanne (14 September 1851, Auxerre, France--31 October 1931, Saint-Cloud, France) was a 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist; he is noted for his literary research on the authors of the 18th century; he published many previously unpublished works by authors including Paradis Moncrif, Benserade, Caylus, Besenval, the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; he founded the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines, of which he was president; his research produced a considerable literary output and frequent publications in newspapers; one of the topics his research focused on was the discussion of fashion and femininity in the French fin-de-siècle; this took the form of monographs and works including Son Altesse la femme (French for Her Highness Woman), Féminies and La Française du siècle (The Frenchwoman of the Century); his own works include novels and fantasy books, such as Surprises du Coeur and Contes pour les bibliophiles (Tales for bibliophiles))
BnF, 9 January 2017 (Uzanne, Octave (1851-1931); French; male; born 1851-09-14 in Auxerre (Yonne); died 1931-10-31 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine; writer, bibliophile; editor-in-chief of periodicals "Le Livre" (1880-1889) and "Le Livre modern" (1890-1891))
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