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Excerpt from Louvet: Revolutionist Romance-Writer
Carlyle's contemptuous reference to, and summary dismissal of, Faublas in his French Revolution have made at least the name of that romance familiar to English readers, and most have been content to pass on their way regarding its author as nothing more than a typical eighteenth century purveyor of the superfluities of naughtiness. If we except M. Aulard's biographical introduction to his admirable edition of Louvet's Memoires, and the briefer notices attached to the various reprints of his works, no biography of Louvet has, so far as I am aware, been published either in French or English, although he was admittedly one of the most romantic figures in the whole history of the French Revolution.
Three years have passed since I discovered (as doubtless many others have done before me) that Louvet was not only a most brilliant writer, but also a most fascinating hero, of romance; and that the plain record of his life after writing that wonderful, though much maligned, romance, Faublas, is as breathlessly exciting and as full of picturesque incident and rapid movement as the most dashing tale ever imagined by Dumas himself. Indeed, it is not too much to affirm that whilst the historian will find in Faublas an invaluable picture of French society under the ancien regime, the novelist may confidently turn to the pages of his Recit de mes perils with the expectation of finding the material for half a dozen stirring romances.
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