André Baillon

André Baillon was born in Antwerp on 27 April 1875 and was brought up by a strict aunt, who put him in a Jesuit boarding school. Expelled from the University of Louvain, he squandered in a few years the fortune he had inherited. In 1902, he married Marie Vandenberghe, a former prostitute, with whom he lived as a peasant in Westmalle, in the Campine, and he worked as a journalist on the Brussels daily La Dernière Heure. He published his first book only at forty-five, in 1920, settled in France at the beginning of the twenties, published most of his books with Rieder and died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 April 1932.

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• NovelHistoire d'une MarieAndré Baillon · 1921not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain