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Joseph de Rosny (1771–1814)
Rosny, Antoine Joseph Nicolas de (rō-nē’). A French miscellaneous writer; born at Paris in 1771; died at Valenciennes, Oct. 21, 1814. He was one of the most prolific writers of his century. His first book, ‘The Unfortunates of La Galetière’ (1796), a romance, was followed with almost inconceivable rapidity by more than eighty volumes, among them being: ‘Life of Florian’ (1797); ‘The Oracle of Apollo’ (1800); and ‘Literary View of France during the Thirteenth Century’ (1809), an attempt to finish the work on the literary history of France, material for which had been collected by the Benedictines of St. Maur.