biography
pronunciation:
[pairgoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1915)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Belmont, S France. At first a teacher, he left to become an editor in the administration of the Beaux Arts in the city of Paris. He published some poetry, including De Goupil à Margot, Histoire de Bêtes (1910), the second volume of which won him the Prix Goncourt, but he is best known for the novel La Guerre des Boutons (1912), later filmed. He was killed in action in World War 1. |
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