'GEORGES
COURTELINE
NÉ À TOURS
LE 25 JUIN 1958
MORT À PARIS
LE 25 JUIN 1929'
Square Courteline in the 12th arrondissement at the junction of Avenue de Saint Mandé and Boulevard de Picpus. Unfortunately I couldn't get a close-up of the bust as the sun was shining directly on it. Courteline was a playwright and novelist born Georges Moinaux and the son of the writer Jules Moinaux. Something of a practical joker, he invented the conomètre or idiomètre supposedly designed to measure a person's stupidity. A regular of l'Augerge du Clou for several years, he used his simple contraption there. Below are two photos of his grave in the Cimetiére du Père-Lachaise which I took in 2011 and included elsewhere.
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