Charles Nodier, was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the "conte fantastique", gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary historians. He was born at Besançon. His father, on the outbreak of the French Revolution, … Wikipedia
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