BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, JULES AMEDEE (18o8 1889), French man of letters, was born at Saint-Sauveur-le Vicomte (Manche). His most famous novels are Une Vieille Maitresse (1851), attacked at the time of its publication on the charge of immorality; L'Ensorcelee (1854), an episode of the royalist rising among the Norman peasants against the first republic; the Chevalier Destouches (1864); and a collection of extraordinary stories entitled Les Diaboliques (1874). Barbey d'Aurevilly is an extreme example of the eccentricities of which the Romanticists were capable, and to read him is to understand the discredit that fell upon the manner. He was literary critic of the Pays, and a number of his essays, contributed to this and other journals, were collected as Les Oeuvres et les hommes du XIX.e siecle (1861-65). Other literary studies are Les Romanciers (1866) and Goethe et Diderot (188o).