About Charles Nodier
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval. It was there that Nodier composed, in 1812, the first draft of his novel Jean Sbogar. The title page of the first edition attributed publishing to the author of Jean Sbogar and authorship to the pseudonym "C. Their only daughter Marie-Antoinette-Élisabeth Mennessier-Nodier (1811 – 1893) became a noted woman of letters. This is recorded in Dumas' novella La Femme au Collier de Velours, which begins with a personal portrait and some reminiscences of Nodier and the Cėnacle.
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