Jean de Tinan (19 January 1874 – 18 November 1898), also known as Jean Le Barbier de Tinan, was a French writer.
Biography Born on January 19 1874, in Paris, France, to a Eugène Jean-Marie Théodose Le Barbier de Tinan and Valentine Derval. He would grow up with his grandmother and aunt instead of his parentsLire : le magazine littéraire. L'actualité de la littérature francaise et de la littérature étrangère Jean de Tinan moved to Paris in 1895 after graduating from the School of Agriculture in Montpellier.Tinan et les Goncourt
He acted as ghostwriter for Willy for two of his novels: Maîtresse d'esthètes and Un vilain Monsieur!
He is remembered as a figure of the Belle Époque.Magazine littéraire - Bibliophilie - Jean de Tinan. Le beau ténébreux He died on November 18 1898 from a stroke in Paris and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Bibliography Un document sur l'impuissance d'aimer (1894) Penses-tu réussir ! (1897) Maîtresse d'esthètes (1897) L'Example de Ninon de Lenclos amoureuse (1898) Un villain monsieur (1898) Aimienne ou le détournement de mineure (1899)
Film adaptations In 2002, a film was made on his novel Le Doux amour des hommes.Doux amour des hommes, Le (2002)
Literary significance Stéphane Mallarmé referred to his Penses-tu réussir! as a modern version of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education.
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