Octave Pirmez

File:Octave Pirmez (1832-1883).jpg

Octave Pirmez

Octave Pirmez (1832 – May 1883) was a Belgian author born in Châtelineau.

Life

Octave belonged to a well-known Belgian family. His cousin, Edouard Pirmez, was distinguished for his works on literary and political subjects. He lived an uneventful life at his family's château at Acoz, in Gerpinnes in Hainaut, where he died.Template:Sfn

Works

Pirmez was an ardent admirer of the French Romanticists. His works include:

• Les Feuillees: pensées et maximes (1862)
• Victor Hugo (1863)
• Jours de solitude (1869)
• Rémo: Souvenir d'un frère (1880); Template:Cite book
• Heures de philosophie (1881); Template:Cite book
• (posthumous) Lettres à José (1884).

These books form a history of his emotional life, and reveal an extreme melancholy.Template:Sfn

References

• See Template:Lang (1888), by Adolphe Siret and José de Coppin.
• {{#if: |

   |{{#ifeq: Pirmez, Octave |
                |{{#ifeq: |
                             |
                             |
                           }}
                |
               }}
  }}{{#ifeq:  |
   |{{#ifeq:  |
                                    |This article
                                    |One or more of the preceding sentences
                                   }} incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 
  }}{{#invoke:template wrapper|{{#if:|list|wrap}}|_template=cite EB1911
   |_exclude=footnote, inline, noicon, no-icon, noprescript, no-prescript, _debug

   | noicon=1
  }}{{#ifeq:  ||}}