24 September 2014

Cimetière de Montrouge #4: Ernest La Jeunesse


'ERNEST LA JEUNESSE

HOMMES DE LETTRES
CHEVALIER DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR

1874 – 1917'

La jeunesse was a novelist, caricaturist and literary critic. He wrote and drew for a number of newspapers and magazines, and was appreciated by Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Léautaud and Jules Renard.

He was unkindly criticised for his high-pitched voice and his eccentric clothes, but supported by Octave Mirbeau, a defender of outsiders.

In Le Forçat honoraire, roman immoral (1907), La Jeunesse attacked the popular crime litterature of the time.

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