Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric Louis Sauser, known as Blaise Cendrars, was born on 1 September 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds. As a young man, he was employed by a Swiss watchmaker and jeweller in Saint Petersburg, where he began to write. In New York, in 1912, he signed for the first time with his pen name his first major poem. A volunteer from the start of the war, he lost his right arm in Champagne in September 1915. A foreign correspondent in the thirties, a war correspondent with the British army in 1939 and 1940, he died in Paris on 21 January 1961.

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