The son of a professor at the University of Geneva, Cherbuliez was educated first at Geneva, then at Paris, Bonn and Berlin, after which he took a position as a teacher in Geneva. He resumed his French nationality and in 1860 published his first book, Un Cheval de Phidias. He received the Legion of Honor in 1870 and was elected to the French Academy in 1881. His best known works include Le Comte Kostia (1863), Le Peince Vitale (1864), Samuel Brohl et Cie (1877), Samuel Brohl (1879), Noirs et rouges (1881), La Vocation du Comte Ghislain (1888) and Jacquine Vanesse (1898). |
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