Nerval Gerardde

Nerval, Gerard de (1808-55), nom de plmne of Gerard Labrunie, who was born at Paris and educated at the Lycee Charlemagne. His first work was a translation of Faust. He afterwards travelled in Europe, Egypt, and western Asia, and lived a stormy and dissipated life, the end of which was probably suicide. To literature he contributed exquisite short stories, Contes et Faceties, etc., La Boheme Qalante, some poems, and Aurelie, on le Rive et la Vie. In 1852 he also published Les Illumines, ou les Precurseurs dn Socialisme.