CHAPTER VII

THE MINORS OF 1830 281

Sainte-Beuve: _Volupte_--Its "puff-book"--Itself--Its character in various aspects--Jules Sandeau and Charles de Bernard--Sandeau's work--Bernard's--Sue, Soulie, and the novel of melodrama: _Le Juif Errant_, etc.--Melodramatic fiction generally--_Le Chateau des Pyrenees_--_Les Memoires du Diable_--Later writers and writings of the class--Murger--The _Vie de Boheme_--_Les Buveurs d'Eau_ and the Miscellanies--Reybaud: _Jerome Paturot_, and Thackeray on its earlier part--The windfall of Malvina--The difference of the Second Part--Not much of a novel--But an invaluable document--Mery--_Les Nuits Anglaises_--The minor stories--_Histoire d'une Colline_--The "Manchester" article--Karr--Roger de Beauvoir: _Les Cabaret des Morts_--Ourliac: _Contes du Bocage_--Achard--Souvestre, Feval, etc.--Borel's _Champavert_.