Alfred Masson-Forestier
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Alfred Masson-Forestier was a French
writer, born at Le Havre
. He studied law and from 1884 to 1899 practiced his profession at Rouen
. After 1899 Masson-Fortier settled in Paris
and devoted all his time to literature, contributing to the Revue des Deux Mondes
, Le Temps, La Revue, etc. His stories, usually short and sober in content, are reminiscent of Merimée and Maupassant
. He wrote:
His dramas were:
The last years of his life were spent in a study of Racine
and he published in 1911 Autour d'un Racine ignoré.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
writer, born at Le Havre
Le Havre
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
. He studied law and from 1884 to 1899 practiced his profession at Rouen
Rouen
Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...
. After 1899 Masson-Fortier settled in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and devoted all his time to literature, contributing to the Revue des Deux Mondes
Revue des deux mondes
The Revue des deux Mondes is a French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829....
, Le Temps, La Revue, etc. His stories, usually short and sober in content, are reminiscent of Merimée and Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....
. He wrote:
- Difficile devoir (1879)
- Pour une signature, etc. (1892)
- La Jambe coupée, etc. (1894)
- Remords d'avocat (1896), crowned by the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
- Angoisses de juge, etc. (1898)
- Une flambée d'amour (1900)
- À méme la vie (1901)
- L'Attaque nocturne (1903)
His dramas were:
- Médecin de campagne (1901)
- Attaque nocturne (1905), with André de LordeAndré de LordeAndré de Latour, comte de Lorde was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901-1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote 150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the...
- Baraterie (1905)
- Le Droit du père (1907), with Auguste Monnier
The last years of his life were spent in a study of Racine
Jean Racine
Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition...
and he published in 1911 Autour d'un Racine ignoré.