Léon Deschamps
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Léon Deschamps (1864 – 28 December 1899) was a French novelist and poet, most notable as the founder of the La Plume literary review.
Career
[edit]Deschamps was from Poitou and trained as a cook. He quit this career to become a commercial agent for Gazette du Palais in Paris.[1]
He founded La Plume on 15 April 1889. His close friends, George Bonnamour and Paul Redonnel, were also involved in the management and editorship of the review.[1] The review had a conservative-leaning, although Deschamps himself had reactionary sympathies.[2]
He led the review until his sudden death at age 36 in 1899.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew (2009). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Oxford University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
- ^ McGuinness, Patrick (2015). Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française. Oxford University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-19-870610-6.
Bibliography
[edit]- Léon Deschamps: fondateur de La Plume (in French). 1900.
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