FEVAL, PAUL HENRI CORENTIN French novelist and dramatist, was born at Rennes in Brittany, and much of his best work deals with the history of his native province. He was educated for the bar, but after his first brief he went to Paris and began to write. The Mysteres de Londees (1844) was published under the pseudonym "Sir Francis Others of his novels are: Le Fils du diable (1846) ; Les Corn pagnons du silence (1857) ; Le Bossu (1858) ; Le Poisson d'or (1863) ; Les Habits noirs (1863) ; Jean le diable (1868), and Les Com pagnons du tresor 0872). Some of his novels were drama tized. His chronicles of crime exercised an evil influence, eventu ally recognized by the author himself. In his later years he became an ardent Catholic, and occupied himself in revising his earlier works from his new standpoint and in writing religious pamphlets. He died of paralysis in the monastery of the Brothers of Saint John in Paris on March 8, 1887. His Oeuvres (38 vols.) ap peared in His son, PAUL FEVAL (1860— ), became well known as a novelist and dramatist. Among his works are Nouvelles (1.89o), Maria Laura (1891) and Cliantepie (1896).