10 Facts About Victor Cherbuliez

Charles Victor Cherbuliez was a Swiss, and then French novelist and author.

Victor Cherbuliez was born at Geneva, Switzerland and died at Combs-la-Ville.

Victor Cherbuliez was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Academie francaise in 1881.

Victor Cherbuliez was born at Geneva, where his father, Andre Victor Cherbuliez, was a classical professor at the Universite de Geneve.

Victor Cherbuliez was descended from a family of Protestant refugees, and many years later Victor Cherbuliez resumed his French nationality, taking advantage of an act passed in the early days of the Revolution.

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Victor Cherbuliez returned to his native town and engaged in the profession of teaching.

Victor Cherbuliez's first book, originally published in 1860, reappeared in 1864 under the title of Un Cheval de Phidias: it is a romantic study of art in the golden age of Athens.

Victor Cherbuliez did not possess the sombre power or the intensely analytical skill of some of his later contemporaries, but his books are distinguished by a freshness and honesty, fortified by cosmopolitan knowledge and lightened by unobtrusive humour, which fully account for their wide popularity in many countries besides his own.

Victor Cherbuliez's genius was the reverse of dramatic, and attempts to present two of his stories on the stage have not succeeded.

Victor Cherbuliez's essays have all the merits due to liberal observation and thoroughness of treatment; their style, like that of the novels, is admirably lucid and correct.