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Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl HuysmansAKA Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans

Born: 5-Feb-1848
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 12-May-1907
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: Cancer - other
Remains: Buried, Cimeti�re du Montparnasse, Paris, France

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Decadent author, � Rebours

Military service: French Army (Franco-Prussian War, 1870)

Founding member and first president of the Acad�mie Goncourt.

Father: (painter, d. 24-Jun-1856)
Mother: Elisabeth-Malvina Badin
Father: Jules Og (stepfather)

    High School: Lycee Saint-Louis (1866)

    French Legion of Honor 13-Jan-1907
    Dutch Ancestry Paternal

Author of books:
Le Drageoir aux �pices (1874)
Marthe, histoire d'une fille (1876)
Les Soeurs Vatard (1879)
Sac au dos (1880)
Croquis parisiens (1880)
En m�nage (1881)
A vau-l'eau (1882, novel, trans. Downstream)
L'Art moderne (1883, art criticism)
� rebours (1884, novel, trans. Against Nature or Against the Grain)
Un dilemme (1887)
En rade (1887)
Certains (1889, art criticism)
La Bi�vre (1890)
L�-bas (1891, novel, trans. Down There)
En route (1895)
La Cath�drale (1898)
Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam (1901)
L'Oblat (1903)
Trois primitifs (1905)
Les Foules de Lourdes (1906)
Trois �glises et Trois primitifs (1908, essays, pub. posthumously)



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