Louis Pergaud

Louis Pergaud was born on 22 January 1882 at Belmont, in the Doubs, the son of a schoolteacher. Trained like his father at the teacher training college in Besançon, he taught in villages of his native département, including Landresse, until 1907, the year he moved to Paris. His stories about animals won him the Prix Goncourt in 1910. Mobilised in 1914 and made a second lieutenant, he disappeared at the front in April 1915, during an attack in the Meuse.

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• NovelThe War of the ButtonsLa Guerre des boutonsLouis Pergaud · 1912LiteraturePublic domain