Charles Nodier
(1780-1844)

author and librarian

Died aged c. 64

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 – 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.

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Charles Nodier, 1780-1844, écrivain. Conservateur de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal à partir de 1824, où il tient le principal salon littéraire de l'époque romantique.

English translation: Charles Nodier, 1780-1844, writer. Curator of the Library of the Arsenal from 1824, where he held the main literary salon of the romantic era. [AWS Translate]

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