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Joris-Karl Huysmans

Died in 1907

Joris-Karl Huysmans was born in Paris on 5 February 1848. He entered the Ministry of the Interior on 1 April 1866 and spent his whole career there until his retirement in 1898. An art critic, he reviewed the salons and defended the Impressionists. Having returned to Catholicism in the early 1890s, he became a Benedictine oblate at Ligugé in 1901. The first president of the Académie Goncourt in 1900, he died in Paris, his native city, on 12 May 1907.

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