Pierre Michel (born 11 June 1942), is a professor of literature and a scholar specializing in the French writer Octave Mirbeau.
Luis Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Octave Mirbeau's original novel were said to be particular influences on Woman on the Night Train.
Octave Mirbeau | GNU Octave | Octave One | Octave | octave | Octave Chanute | Joseph-Octave Plessis | Octave Maus | Eugene Octave Sykes | The White Octave | Romain-Octave Pelletier II | Romain-Octave Pelletier I | Paul Octave Hébert | Paul Octave Hebert | Octave Meynier | Octave (liturgical) | Octave Levenspiel | Octave Gengou | Octave Chanute Award | Joseph Octave Delepierre | Joseph-Octave Arsenault | Eighth octave C |
There, he became acquainted with many writers, including Henry Becque, Abel Hermant, Paul Hervieu, Octave Mirbeau, and Émile Zola, as well as artists including Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, one of the chief illustrators for Gil Blas Illustré, who was to become a lifelong friend.
Numerous activists contributed to the paper, including Jean Grave, Bernard Lazare, Albert Libertad, Octave Mirbeau, Saint-Pol-Roux, Tristan Bernard, Georges Darien, Lucien Descaves, Sébastien Faure, Félix Fénéon, Émile Henry, Camille Mauclair, Émile Verhaeren, and Adolphe Tabarant.
La Mort de Balzac (The Death of Balzac) by Octave Mirbeau is a collection of three sub-chapters that were initially intended to appear in Mirbeau’s La 628-E8, in November 1907, but were then withdrawn at the last moment at the request of the 80-year daughter of Madame Hanska, the Countess of Mniszech.