Camille Lemonnier

Camille Lemonnier was born in Ixelles in March 1844, the son of a lawyer at the court of appeal and a cousin of the engraver Félicien Rops. He came from art criticism, his first book being a review of the Brussels salon published in 1863, before turning to the novel. Several of his books brought him prosecutions for offences against public morals, from which he most often emerged acquitted. Young Belgian writers took him as their master and hailed him as the marshal of Belgian letters. He died on 13 June 1913.

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• NovelUn mâleCamille Lemonnier · 1881not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain