Hugues Rebell

{{Short description|French writer}} [[File:Hugues Rebell by Vallotton.PNG|thumb|Rebell c1898 by Félix Vallotton ]] '''Georges Grassal de Choffat''' or '''Hugues Rebell''' (27 October 1867 in Nantes – 6 March 1905 in Paris) was a French author. He wrote against Christianity and professed paganism while remaining a Catholic. An exponent of Friedrich Nietzsche, he was associated with the right-wing nationalist group {{lang|fr|Action Française}}.<ref>{{cite book | title=Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France | first=Venita | last=Datta | publisher=SUNY Press | year=1999 | isbn=0-7914-4208-X | page=24}}</ref>

Rebell wrote a number of pornographic works under the group pseudonym "Jean de Villiot",<ref>{{cite book | first=Lisa Z. | last=Sigel | title=International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000 | url=https://archive.org/details/internationalexp00sige | url-access=limited | publisher=Rutgers University Press | year=2005 | isbn=0-8135-3519-0 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/internationalexp00sige/page/n99 89], 98}}</ref> a prolific contributor to early 20th century French spanking literature, published by Charles Carrington.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France | volume=36 | series=Studies on the History of Society and Culture | first=Carolyn Janice | last=Dean | publisher=University of California Press | year=2000 | isbn=0-520-21995-3 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/frailsocialbody00caro/page/106 106–107] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/frailsocialbody00caro/page/106 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=José-Maria de Heredia: Poète du Parnasse | series=Collection Colloques de la Sorbonne | editor=Yann Mortelette | publisher=Presses Paris Sorbonne | year=2006 | isbn=2-84050-462-6 | page=35}}</ref>

Rebell is often dismissed as a failed author of pornography, remembered for only one title, ''{{lang|fr|Les nuits chaudes du Cap Français}}'' (1902),<ref>{{cite book | title=Guide du roman de langue française: 1901-1950| first=Gerald | last=Prince | publisher=University Press of America | year=2002 | isbn=0-7618-2196-1 | page=15 }}</ref> which won the Prix Nocturne in 1966. He was also a poet, whose ''{{lang|fr|Les Chants de la pluie et du soleil}}'', dedicated to his friend René Boylesve, inspired André Gide in ''{{lang|fr|Les Nourritures Terrestres}}''. He was also known as a polemicist of royalty because of his ''{{lang|fr|Union des trois aristocraties}}'' (1894), which treated the three aristocracies based on family name, money, and talent.

He wrote articles for the journals ''La Cocarde'' and ''Le Soleil'', which were included in a collection of writings published in 1994 under the title ''De mon balcon''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rebell|first=Hugues|title=De mon balcon: recueil de chroniques et d'articles inédits, extraits des journaux, La Cocarde & Le Soleil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lc1cAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1994|publisher=Libr. La Vouivre|isbn=978-2-9506621-1-8}}</ref> He wrote a defence of Oscar Wilde in the August issue of the literary magazine ''Mercure de France'' in 1895.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * Marius Boisson, ''Hugues Rebell, intime'', Paris, Seheur, 1930. * Hubert Juin, ''Écrivains de l’avant-siècle'', Paris, Seghers, 1972. * Thierry Rodange, ''Le diable quitte la table ou La vie passionnée d'Hugues Rebell'', Paris, Mercure de France, 1994.

==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=39073| name=Hugues Rebell}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Hugues Rebell}}

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