biography
pronunciation:
[repeeday]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1947)
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| biography:
| Historian and novelist of life in Madrid, born in Madrid, Spain. While a student in Paris he became librarian to the exiled Isabel II until she died in 1904, and later wrote her biography, Isabel II, reina de España (1932). Alfonso XII (1936) is another biography. Among his Madrid novels were Del Rastro a Maravillas (1907), Noche perdida (1908), Madrid de los abuelos (1908), Paquito Candil (1909), and Costumbres y devociones madrileñas (1914). His quaint style, with its archaic terms, quickly went out of date, and Répide published no more novels after 1920, though a collection of his Novelas madrileñas appeared in 1951. Estampas grotescas (1925) is a volume of his verse. |
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