Louis D'Aboville is by no means a household name. His writing has largely been forgotten, and his influence upon literature and culture is negligible. Yet, we can learn much about the human experience through his history. Louis was a man marked by his extreme sadness and misery. Those who did not hate him pitied him, and feelings did not much surpass that. Louis D'Aboville's story is Sisyphean in nature. He was a man doomed to fail, yet he fought back against all hope. He fought back against the world that held no place for him through highly disturbing literature that due to their gruesome content, did not garner much of a following. His stories were a portrait of a depraved man whose broken heart oozed blood into his passion. The level of his perseverance is almost admirable if you don't consider how useless his toil ended up being. Due to the general lack of interest in Louis D'Aboville's art and history, not much research has been done on him. The information collected in this biography has almost exclusively been garnered from his various journals and his preserved correspondence. Louis D'Aboville, a meek yet vindictive man, thought that he was fated for success, and so that he could later taunt his adversaries with their own scorn, he kept every letter sent to him. Louis' sister, Camille Bassot D'Aboville, later collected all these records after his death and kept them in her home, where they stayed for generations. In fact, more information is known about Louis D'Aboville than is known about his works, that if not utterly lost, they are only available in incomplete manuscripts. Through the story of Louis D'Aboville, I hope you will find truths self-evident of a great human experience.
