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==Selected works== * ''Les Faux Saulniers'' (''The Salt Smugglers'', 1850) – published over several weeks in ''[[Le National (Paris)|Le National]]'', a daily newspaper. He later incorporated some of this material in ''[[Les Filles du feu]]'' (in ''Angelique'') and in ''[[Les Illuminés]]'' (in ''L'Abbé de Bucquoy''). * ''[[Voyage en Orient]]'' (1851) – an account of the author's voyages to Germany, Switzerland and Vienna in 1839 and 1840, and to Egypt and Turkey in 1843. Includes several pieces already published, including ''Les Amours de Vienne'', which first appeared in the ''[[Revue de Paris]]'' in 1841. One of the author's major works. * ''La Bohème Galante'' (1852) – a collection of short prose works and poems including some of the set he later called ''Odelettes''. Dedicated and addressed to [[Arsène Houssaye]]. * ''Les Nuits d'Octobre'' (1852) – a small but distinguished collection of essays describing Paris at night. * ''[[Lorely, souvenirs d'Allemagne]]'' (1852) – an account of his travels along the Rhine, also in Holland and Belgium. It includes the full-length play ''Léo Burckart'', under the title "Scènes de la Vie Allemande". * ''[[Les Illuminés]]'' (1852) – a collection of six biographical narratives in the form of novellas or essays. * ''[[Sylvie (novel)|Sylvie]]'' (1853) – described by Nerval as "un petit roman" ("a small novel"), it is the most celebrated of his works. * ''Petits Châteaux de Bohême'' (1853) – a collection of prose works and poetry, including the short play ''Corilla'', which was subsequently included in ''[[Les Filles du feu]]'', the ''Odelettes'', and several of the sonnets later published as ''The Chimeras''. * ''[[Les Filles du feu]]'' (1854) – a volume of short stories or idylls, including the previously published ''Sylvie'', along with a sequence of twelve sonnets, ''[[The Chimeras]]'' * ''[[La Pandora|Pandora]]'' (1854) – another Fille du Feu, not finished in time for inclusion in that volume, written in the style of ''Sylvie'' and set in Vienna. Also known as ''La Pandora'', often subtitled ''Suite des Amours de Vienne''. * ''{{ill|Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie|fr}}'' (1855, posthumously) – a fantasy-ridden interior autobiography as referred to by Gérard de Nerval * ''Promenades et Souvenirs'' (1854–1855) – a collection of eight essays after the manner of ''Les Nuits d'Octobre'', describing the [[Saint-Germain-des-Prés|Saint-Germain neighbourhood]] of the author's childhood and youth. The last, "Chantilly", includes a portrait similar to those in ''Les Filles du feu''.
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