'CHARLES NODIER
MEMBRE
DE
L'ACADÉMIE
FRANÇAISE
ET DE
LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR
BIBLIOTHÉCAIRE
DE L'ARSENAL'
The Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal is part of the BNF. Charles Nodier (1780–1844) was a highly prolific writer of the period, but for me he is particularly interesting for his 1835 book Bibliographie des fous : De quelques livres excentriques: a seminal work from which Raymond Queneau, for instance, learned a great deal. More importantly, it is a precursor to the huge, essential work on outsider literature by André Blavier: Les Fous littéraires (1982; repr. with additions 2001).
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Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise / Père Lachaise Cemetery
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