Jean Lombard

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Jean Lombard (26 September 1854 - 17 July 1891) was a French novelist of the late nineteenth century.

Lombard was born in Toulon, Var. His work, with its themes of orientalism, androgyny and paganism, had deep affiliations with the Decadent movement in literature. Although almost completely forgotten today, he influenced contemporaries such as Rachilde and Jean Lorrain. His best known work, based on the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, is L'agonie (1888), for which Octave Mirbeau wrote a preface. According to William Sharp, Lombard died in 1891 in poverty, bordering on starvation.

References

Sharp, William. Studies and Appreciations. Duffield & Company, 1912.

External links

Works by Jean Lombard at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
(French) Octave Mirbeau, « Jean Lombard ».

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Name	Lombard, Jean
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Short description	French writer
Date of birth	1854
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Date of death	1891
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