Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.
Portrait formerly thought to be of Charles Nodier (date and artist unknown)
Portrait of Charles Nodier (1844)
Bust of Charles Nodier by David d'Angers (1845).
Nodier's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery, (49th division)
Gérard de Nerval, the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, was a French essayist, poet, translator, and travel writer. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu, which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie, influenced André Breton and Surrealism.
Gérard de Nerval, by Nadar
La rue de la vieille lanterne: The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval, by Gustave Doré, 1855