Léon Deschamps Explained

Léon Deschamps (1864  - 28 December 1899) was a French novelist and poet, most notable as the founder of the La Plume literary review.

Career

Deschamps was from Poitou and trained as a cook. He quit this career to become a commercial agent for Gazette du Palais in Paris.^[1]

He founded La Plume on 15 April 1889. His close friends, George Bonnamour and Paul Redonnel, were also involved in the management and editorship of the review. The review had a conservative-leaning, although Deschamps himself had reactionary sympathies.^[2]

He led the review until his sudden death at age 36 in 1899.

References

Bibliography

• Book: Léon Deschamps: fondateur de La Plume . 1900 . fr.

Notes and References

1. Book: Brooker, Peter . The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines . Thacker . Andrew . 2009 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-965958-6 . 77 . en.
2. Book: McGuinness, Patrick . Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française . 2015 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-870610-6 . 192 . en.