16 Facts About Charles Nodier

Charles Nodier's dream related writings influenced the later works of Gerard de Nerval.

Charles Nodier was born at Besancon in France, near the border with Switzerland.

In 1793 Charles saved the life of a lady guilty of sending money to an emigre, declaring to his father that if she were condemned he would take his own life.

Charles Nodier was sent to Strasbourg, where he studied with Eulogius Schneider, the notorious Jacobin and public prosecutor of Alsace, but a good Greek scholar.

Charles Nodier became librarian in his native town, but his exertions in the cause of suspected persons brought him under suspicion.

Charles Nodier then left Paris, where he had gone after losing his position at Besancon, and for some years lived a very unsettled life at Besancon, Dole, and in other places in the Jura.

The hero, Charles Nodier, who is a variation of the Werther type, desires the restoration of the monasteries, to afford a refuge from the woes of the world.

Charles Nodier was working as a secretary to the elderly Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet and his platonic friend Lady Mary Hamilton.

In December 1812 Charles Nodier moved to Ljubljana, then the capital of the newly established French Illyrian Provinces, and was in 1813 the last editor of a multilingual newspaper, the Official Telegraph of the Illyrian Provinces published in French, German and Italian.

Charles Nodier was elected a member of the Academie francaise in 1833, of the Societe Entomologique de France when this was formed in 1832, and he was made a member of the Legion of Honour.

Charles Nodier had the advantage of a settled home in which to collect and study rare and unusual books; and he was able to establish a celebrated literary salon, known as Le Cenacle, rallying a knot of young literary men to romanticism, some of whom would achieve great renown themselves.

Charles Nodier was a passionate admirer of Goethe, Laurence Sterne and Shakespeare, and himself contributed to the literature that was one of the leading traits of the Romantic school.

Charles Nodier found an indulgent biographer in Prosper Merimee on the occasion of the younger man's admission to the academy.

Charles Nodier translated and adapted an Italian play by Carmillo Frederici in 1821.

Charles Nodier's Description raisonnee d'une jolie collection de livres, which is a catalogue of the books in his library, contains a life by Francis Wey and a complete bibliography of his numerous works.

Since 1985, a bronze bust of Charles Nodier stands at the court of its building, work of Jakov Brdar, according to the plans by the architect Marjan Ocvirk.