Uzanne, Octave, 1851-1931 (Nombre personal)

His L'Eventail, 1882: t.p. (Octave Uzanne)

LC data base, 12-2-83 (hdg.: Uzanne, Louis Octave, 1852-1931; usage: Octave Uzanne)

Un coeur de mére, 1836: title page (by Mm. N. Fournier et Uzanne)

Wikipedia 9 January 2017 (Octave Uzabbe; born Louis Octave Uzanne (14 September 1851, Auxerre, France--31 October 1931, Saint-Cloud, France) was a 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist; he is noted for his literary research on the authors of the 18th century; he published many previously unpublished works by authors including Paradis Moncrif, Benserade, Caylus, Besenval, the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; he founded the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines, of which he was president; his research produced a considerable literary output and frequent publications in newspapers; one of the topics his research focused on was the discussion of fashion and femininity in the French fin-de-siècle; this took the form of monographs and works including Son Altesse la femme (French for Her Highness Woman), Féminies and La Française du siècle (The Frenchwoman of the Century); his own works include novels and fantasy books, such as Surprises du Coeur and Contes pour les bibliophiles (Tales for bibliophiles))

BnF, 9 January 2017 (Uzanne, Octave (1851-1931); French; male; born 1851-09-14 in Auxerre (Yonne); died 1931-10-31 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine; writer, bibliophile; editor-in-chief of periodicals "Le Livre" (1880-1889) and "Le Livre modern" (1890-1891))