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Paul Brulat (1866-1940) was a French writer and journalist.

Youth and studies
Paul Auguste Brulat was born on may 26 1866 in Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, in Furgon, Ardèche. At his birth, his father, Auguste Casimir Burlat, was a thirty-year-old lawyer, and his mother, Alphonsine Augustine Serpelin, was twenty-eight years old.

At the age of two, Paul Brulat moved with his family to Tunisia, where his father was a lawyer at the district court of Tunis. He returned to Metropolitan France to follow his studies at Marseille High School, now Thiers high school, where he remained a boarder for nine years according to his account. He was classmates with Edmond Rostand.

He began studying law in Paris in 1885, and obtained his bachelor's degree.

Professional career
After a year of military surface, he became an inspector of monuments historiques.

Paul Brulat first met Émile Zola at the end of 1889.

On April 8, 1895, at the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paul Brulat married Catherine Alice Bionier (born November 13, 1877), in the presence of writers Émile Zola and Paul Alexis and the publisher Georges Charpentier; the last two being relatives of Zola. They divorced on January 6, 1902.

Romans

 * L'Âme errante, 1892.
 * La Rédemption, 1895.
 * L'Ennemie, 1897.
 * Le Reporteur, roman contemporain, 1898.
 * La Faiseuse de gloire, 1900.
 * Le Nouveau Candide, 1902.
 * La Gangue, 1903.
 * Eldorado, 1904.
 * L'Aventure de Cabassou, 1905.
 * Beaucoup d'amour pour rien..., 1916.
 * Rina, 1918.
 * La Plus Belle Victoire, 1920.
 * L'Étoile de Joseph, 1921.
 * L'Amour sauveur, (15 pages) 1921.
 * Ne forçons pas notre destin, 1926.
 * Le Passage dangereux, 1928.
 * Le Devoir de vivre, 1928.
 * La Vie de Rirette, 1932.

Histoire

 * Histoire populaire de Jules Ferry, 1907.
 * Histoire populaire d'Émile Zola, 1909.
 * Histoire populaire de Gambetta, 1909.
 * Histoire populaire du général Hoche, 1911.
 * Histoire populaire du général Galliéni, 1920.

Contes et nouvelles

 * Sous la fenêtre, 1896.
 * Méryem, 1900.
 * La Femme et l'Ombre, 1913.
 * Les Destinées, 1921.

Divers

 * L'Affaire Dreyfus. Violence et Raison, 1898.
 * Pensées choisies, 1922.
 * Causerie faite en l'Hôtel du Cercle de la Librairie, 1923.
 * Lumières et grandes ombres. Souvenirs personnels, 1930.
 * La Peinture à travers les âges, 1931.