But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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| Birth: | 29th April, 1780 |
| Death: | 27th January, 1844 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Librarian, Writer |
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Charles Nodier was born at Besançon in France. He was a French writer and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, vampire tales. During these wanderings he wrote his novel, Le peintre de Salzbourg, journal des émotions d'un coeur souffrant, suivi des Meditations du cloître. In 1824 he was appointed librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
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