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Octave Aubry
Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris – 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian.
Biography.
Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. Aubry himself succeeded cardinal Alfred Baudrillart in seat 8, but died a month and a half after his election, the day before he was due to present his reception speech to
De Sade Quartet" by the Marquis de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1963.
- (tr. with Alan Daventry) "A pictorial history of magic and the supernatural" by Maurice Bessy. London: Spring Books, 1963.
- "Napoleon" by Octave Aubry. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1964.
- "Eugenie de Franval, and other stories" by the Marquis de Sade. Spearman, 1965.
- "The gift of indifference" by Cécile Arnaud. London: Heinemann,