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Amédée Delorme

1850–1936

A French man of letters who also served in the War Ministry, he brought firsthand experience to his writing about war and public life. His best-known work revisits the Franco-Prussian War through the eyes of a young under-officer, with a direct and personal tone.

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Journal d'un sous-officier, 1870

Journal d'un sous-officier, 1870

by Amédée Delorme

About the author

Born in 1850 and died in 1936, Amédée Delorme was a French writer. The Bibliothèque nationale de France identifies him as a man of letters, a member of the Société des gens de lettres, and a former bureau chief at the Ministry of War.

Delorme also volunteered during the war of 1870, a fact noted by both the BnF and the Académie française. That experience clearly connects with his best-known surviving book, Journal d'un sous-officier, 1870, a work centered on the Franco-Prussian War and remembered for its personal, ground-level view of military life.

Published records also link him to other writings, including plays and military-themed works, suggesting an author interested in both literature and history. Reliable biographical detail about his private life appears limited in the sources readily available online, so most of what can be confirmed today comes through library and archival catalogs.