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Théophile Gautier

Born

in Tarbes, France

August 30, 1811

Died

October 23, 1872

Genre

Fiction, Travel

Influences

Honoré de Balzac, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Molière, E.T.A. Hoffman ...more

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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. In the 1830 Revolution, he chose to stay with friends in the Doyenné district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse, which also gave him the opportunity for foreign travel and meeting many influential contacts in high society and in the world of the arts, which inspired many of his writings including Voyage en Espagne (1843), Trésors d'Art de la Russie (1858), and Voyage en Russie (1867). He was a celebrated abandonnée of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of wh ...more

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Théophile Gautier’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 14,067 ratings · 1,493 reviews · 2,079 distinct works • Similar authors

	La Morte Amoureuse 3.79 avg rating — 2,046 ratings — published 1836 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier, Helen Constantine (Translator), Patricia Duncker (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 1,306 ratings — published 1835 — 451 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le capitaine Fracasse 3.84 avg rating — 1,181 ratings — published 1863 — 422 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Roman de la momie 3.37 avg rating — 1,006 ratings — published 1858 — 276 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Récits fantastiques by Théophile Gautier, Marc Eigeldinger (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 706 ratings — published 1859 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier, Richard Holmes (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mummy's Foot 3.47 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1840 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arria Marcella (Ldp Libretti) 3.52 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1852 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Cafetière; Le Chevalier double 3.28 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Cafetiere et autres contes fantastiques 3.58 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1981 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Théophile Gautier

Mademoiselle de Maupin (2 books)
by

Théophile Gautier,

I.G. Burnham (Translator)

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Quotes by Théophile Gautier (?)

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: love

81 likes

“Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred every detail with its ragged veils, punctured at various distances by the reddish glow of lanterns and bars of light escaping from illuminated windows. The road was soaked with rain and glittered under the street-lamps, like a lake reflecting strings of lights. A bitter wind, heavy with icy particles, whipped at my face, its howling forming the high notes of a symphony whose bass was played by swollen waves crashing into the piers of the bridges below. The evening lacked none of winter's rough poetry.”
― Théophile Gautier, Hashish, wine, opium

tags: cold, evening, night, rain, winter

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Polls

January 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 544 pages, 1819

55 votes, 23.7%

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 170 pages, 1895

46 votes, 19.8%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages, 1842

38 votes, 16.4%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

26 votes, 11.2%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 448 pages, 1782

24 votes, 10.3%

Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages, 1833

15 votes, 6.5%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages, 1830

13 votes, 5.6%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages, 1859

9 votes, 3.9%

Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier, 363 pages, 1835

6 votes, 2.6%

232 total votes

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