​PIRMEZ, OCTAVE (1832-1883), Belgian author, was born at Chatelineau in 1832. He belonged to a well-known Belgian family, and his cousin, Edouard Pirmez, was distinguished for his works on literary and political subjects. He lived an uneventful life at his chateau of Acoz, in Hainaut, where he died in May 1883. Pirmez was an ardent admirer of the French romanticists. His works include Les F euillées: pertsées et maximes (1862), Vzctor Hugo (1863); fours de solitude (1869); Rémo; Souvenirs d'un frére (1880); Heures de philosophies (1881); and the posthumous Lettfes d José (1884). These books form a history of his emotional life, and reveal an extreme melancholy. See Vze et correspondence d'Octaoe Ptrmez (1888), by Adolphe Siret and Iosé de C0pp1n.