Gérard de Nerval

Gérard Labrunie, known as Gérard de Nerval, was born in Paris on 22 May 1808, the son of a doctor in Napoleon's armies, and was raised by a great-uncle at Mortefontaine, in the Valois. His prose translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust appeared in 1828. An inheritance allowed him to launch a luxurious theatre magazine, which swallowed it up. He loved the actress Jenny Colon. Treated a first time in Dr Blanche's clinic in 1841, he travelled in the Orient in 1843 and died in Paris on 26 January 1855.

In the catalogue 2

• Short storiesDaughters of FireLes Filles du feuGérard de Nerval · 1854LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeAuréliaGérard de Nerval · 1855Literature