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Full Name Charles Félix Henri Rabou Died 11 February 1871, Paris, France People also search for Philarète Chasles, Honoré de Balzac, Regnier-Destourbet-H-F, Nina Cooper | ||
Charles Félix Henri Rabou (6 September 1803 – 1 February 1871) was an 19th-century French writer, novelist and journalist.
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Biography
The son of a military sub-intendant, he studied at the collège Henri IV before attending law classes at the Faculty of Dijon. Back in Paris with his degree in law, he turned away from the bar in favor of literature. First a journalist for La Quotidienne, Le Messager des Chambres, Le Nouvelliste, le Journal de Paris, La Charte de 1830, he held political and literary chronicles, then in 1832 launched La Cour d'Assise, to be published until 1834.
Publication de Balzac
Director of the prestigious Revue de Paris which he helped establish, he befriended Honoré de Balzac whose novels he published in the pages of his paper. Mutual trust was such that Balzac entrusted him with the task to complete some unfinished novels after his death: Le Député d'Arcis (1854), Le Comte de Sallenauve (1855), La Famille Beauvisage (1855), Les Petits Bourgeois (1856), a task Rabou performed honestly but that was coldly greeted by the critics.
He was falsely accused of being Balzac's ghostwriter. Charles Rabo continued to produce great works of literature that deserve to be rediscovered.