Ohnet

Ohnet, GEORGES, a French novelist of great popularity, if not merit, born 3d April 1848 at Paris. He studied law, and after practising some time as an advocate took to journalism, and later to literature proper. Under the general title of Les Batailles de la Vie he has published a series of novels dealing comprehensively with social questions, some of which have actually reached a hundredth edition. The first in this cycle of romances was Serge Panine (1881), too quickly followed by Le Maître de Forges (1882), La Comtesse Sarah (1883), Lise Fleuron (1884), La grande Marnière (1885), Les Dames de la Croix-Mort (1886), and Volonté (1888).