Author: Fiévée, Joseph
Biography:
FIEVEE, Joseph (1767-1839: findagrave.com)
A French journalist and novelist, few of whose works have been translated into English. (The name of the translator of The Pope's Journey--who added twelve pages of original verse--is not known.) Fiévée (or Fiévé) had a varied and colourful career as a publisher, writer, civil servant, and secret agent. He was made a baron by Napoleon but later exiled by him. He lived for thirty years in an openly homosexual relationship with the writer Théodore Leclercq (1777-1851), who helped to raise Fiévée's son by an early marriage and who is buried with him at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. (Wikipédia 30 Jul. 2021; findagrave.com 30 Jul. 2021; Paul Harvey and J. E. Heseltine, Oxford Companion to French Literature [1959]) HJ