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Jean Baptiste Francois Xa De Grainville was a French writer and author of the post-apocalyptic novel Omegarus and Syderia, written in 1805, published in 1806. It has been described as "a strange novel, filled with overblown romantic prose, describing the sublimest horror imaginable - the end of the human race, destroyed by plague."

The book is set in 2092, part political drama, a roman a clef narrated by the fictional character Lionel Verney.

Virtually unknown today, it was noted in an 18365 issue of La Revue de Paris (page 83):

Et le génie dont je parle avait nom Jean-Baptiste-Francois-Xavier de Grainville. Pourriez-vous me dire si on lui a érigé un monument quelque part, s'il a seulement pris place dans quelque modeste musée provincial, si ses traits ont été conservés comme les vôtres (qui que vous soyez), et peut-être comme les miens, par l'iconographe obséquieux des célébrités contemporaines? Hélas !

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