Author
Paul Féval
French novelist and dramatist 1817-1887
Their life
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, known as Paul Féval père, was born on 29 September 1816 and died on 8 March 1887. He was a French novelist and dramatist. He first became widely read for swashbuckling adventure novels, including *Le Loup blanc* (1843) and *Le Bossu* (1857), the latter of which stayed popular for decades. He also wrote novels set in his native Brittany and around Mont Saint-Michel, of which *La Fée des Grèves* (1850) is among the best known.
Féval also wrote early vampire fiction, including *Le Chevalier Ténèbre* (1860), *La Vampire* (1865), and *La Ville Vampire* (1874). He is remembered as one of the founders of modern crime fiction. *Jean Diable* (1862) is often cited as the first modern detective novel in the world
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