Émile Chénin - (12 August 1870 – 2 October 1918) was a French novelist. He was born in Paris

Paris

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Biography

He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in the exams of 1895 (he was then 25 years old).
He taught at Montauban

Montauban

Montauban is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse....

, Orleans, in Paris (Lycée Voltaire) and Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly-sur-Seine

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 (Lycée Pasteur

Lycée Pasteur

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).
He appeared with Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic.From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his...

, among the first authors of the Cahiers de la Quinzaine (founded in 1901 by Peguy).

He was a regionalist author, deeply rooted in rural Lorraine

Lorraine (région)

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 where he is often in the paternal home of Chaudeney-sur-Moselle

Chaudeney-sur-Moselle

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 (Canton of Toul

Toul

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). He received the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

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 in 1907 for Le Rouet d'Ivoire. He died suddenly (heart attack) between Lorient and Quimper, in Chaudeney-sur-Moselle

Chaudeney-sur-Moselle

Chaudeney-sur-Moselle is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department...

 on 2 October 1918 in the Quimper-Paris train, back from holidays spent at Lesconil.

His archives (manuscripts, corrected proofs) were given in 2007 by his family to the city of Nancy; they are deposited at the Public Library.

Works

• L'Aube fraternelle,
• Contes de guerre pour Jean-Pierre,
• Les Etudiants,
• Fils de gueux,
• Les Grenouilles dans la mare,
• La Houle,
• Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère,
• Joson Meunier : histoire d'un paysan lorrain,
• Le Journal de Gottfried Mauser ,
• Le Rouet d'ivoire : enfances lorraines ,
• Terres lorraines.

External links

• La Bibliothèque Municipale Nancy