Octave mirbeau biography of george
Identity: Octave Mirbeau was a novelist, playwright, art critic, journalist, anarchist and amateur painter....
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (French: [ɔktav miʁbo]; 16 February – 16 February ) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer.
Octave Mirbeau
Identity:
Octave Mirbeau was a novelist, playwright, art critic, journalist, anarchist and amateur painter. He was born into a rural middle class family.
Life:
Mirbeau was educated by the Jesuits in Vannes.
He unsuccessfully sought to attain a law degree in Paris from 1866-68. As a lieutenant in the Garde Mobile de l'Orne in 1870-71, he fought in the Franco-Prussian War and was wounded. For a time in 1877 he acted as Chef de cabinet to the Prefect of l'Ariège.
He also worked on the Paris Stock Exchange in the early 1880s.
Mirbeau was an influential literary figure, who sympathised with anarchist philosophy. He worked as art and theatre critic for the bonapartist paper L'Ordre from 1872-77.
In Mirbeau, art memorializes the life it destroys.He also contributed at different times to such politically diverse papers as L'Ariégeois, Le Gaulois, Le Figaro and La France. In 1883 he became editor of Paris-Midi, Paris-Minuit and founder of Les Grimaces. A close friend of the Impressionist painters, he critical
