Charles Nodier

Charles Nodier

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (April 29, 1780, Besançon – January 27, 1844, Paris), was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary historians.

Read more about Charles Nodier:  Early Years, Activism and Wanderings, Works, Musical Adaptations of Nodier's Trilby, Commemoration