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AIMARD,
GUSTAVE, the pen-name of OLIVIER GLOUX (1818-1883), French novelist,
who was born in Paris on the 13th of September 1818. He made
use of the materials collected in a roving and adventurous youth and
early manhood in numerous romances in the style of J. Fenimore Cooper.
Among the best of them are: Les Trappeurs de l’Arkansas (1858); La
Grande flibuste (1860); Nuits mexicaines (1863); La Foret vierge
(1870). He died in Paris on the 20th of June 1883. Many of
his novels have been translated into English.
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