29 September 2015

Paris 2015: Léon Frapié, Cimetière du Montoir, Houilles (78)

 
'LÉON
FRAPIÉ
1863–1949'
 
For nearly forty years Léon Frapié wrote a number of realist novels, of which La Maternelle (1904) was the second to win the Goncourt, begun the year before. This is narrated by a woman and is said to be a largely biographical story of his first wife, the declassée teacher Léonie Mouillefert whom he married in 1888 and who inspired several of his working-class novels.
 
'MADAME LÉON FRAPIÉ
NÉE ALICE VERLAY
1881 – 1975'
 
Frapié's second wife, who as Alice Verlay-Frapié wrote several children's books.

There is a Square Léon Frapié in the 20th arrondissement.

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