Félicien Champsaur was a French

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 novelist and journalist.

Champsaur was born at Turriers

Turriers

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, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

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. His first novel was the roman á clef

Roman à clef

Roman à clef or roman à clé , French for "novel with a key", is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction...

Dinah Samuel (1882), said to present portraits of poet Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

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 and actress Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

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. He went on to publish many novels, collections of articles, and other works, including Miss America (1885), Entrée de clowns (1886), Parisiennes (1887), Les Bohémiens (1887), Lulu (1888), L'Amant des danseuses (1888), La Gomme (1889), and Poupée Japonaise (1912)
Nora, la guenon devenue femme (1929), a parody loosely based on the career of American

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 dancer Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....

. He died in Paris

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.

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