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  • Feuillet, Dumas fils, who hated his work and regarded it as sensational, tawdry, immoral even, took up the cudgels for him at once; declared that the police were not judges of art, and should not interfere with a serious workman.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • Its better-known stockholders included Senator fimile Littre, author of the great French dictionary, and Octave Feuillet, the novelist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Its better-known stockholders included Senator fimile Littre, author of the great French dictionary, and Octave Feuillet, the novelist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • But they are true disciples, as likewise Feuillet in his later manner with

    Balzac 2003

  • An old friend of his once told me that one day, in calling upon Madame Feuillet, he expressed his regret that she had no regular reception-day, as in that case he would be able to see her more frequently.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • Tourgueneff in the Rue de Douai (toward Montmartre), Girardin and Dumas in the Champs Élysées, Feuillet in the Rue de Rivoli, etc. Feuillet's name is, I think, as well known in the United States as that of any

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • I am inclined to think Feuillet has greater genius than any other living writer of French fiction, with one exception.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • But they are true disciples, as likewise Feuillet in his later manner with _Monsieur de Camors_.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Feuillet, rather by sentiment than by conviction, it would appear, is an ardent Catholic, and, like Dumas, owes no small portion of his worldly success to the appreciation of this fact in high quarters.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • (I should have prefaced this anecdote by saying, for the benefit of those readers who have never been in Paris, that the entresol is a low story just over the shops, and that the Rue de Rivoli is one of the noisiest streets in the city.) -- "But Feuillet has leased the third and fourth floors: why don't you receive up there?" responded the visitor.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

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