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Halévy himself was also a skilled writer of novels and short stories. The best of his fiction includes La Famille Cardinal (1883), a study of lower-class Parisian life during the early years of the Third Republic, and the sentimental novel L’Abbé Constantin (1882), which was a huge success with the public. He was elected to the Académie Française in...
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