Octave Pirmez a Belgian

Belgium

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, was born at Châtelineau.

Life

He belonged to a well-known Belgian family, and his cousin, Edouard Pirmez, was distinguished for his works on literary and political subjects. He lived an uneventful life at his family's château

Château

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 at Acoz, in Gerpinnes

Gerpinnes

Gerpinnes is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 12,030 inhabitants. The total area is 47.10 km², giving a population density of 255 inhabitants per km²....

 in Hainaut, where he died.

Works

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

• Les Feuillees: pensées et maximes (1862)
• Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
  Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
  
  (1863)
• Jours de solitude (1869)
• Remo
• Souvenirs d'un frère (1880)
• Heures de philosophie (1881)
• (posthumous) Lettres à José (1884).

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

See (1888), by Adolphe Siret and José de Coppin.
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