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.