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Amédée Delorme
1850–1936
A French man of letters who turned his experience of the Franco-Prussian War into vivid writing, he moved between military administration, the literary world, and the stage. His work was recognized by the Académie française, giving his books a small but lasting place in French literary history.
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Journal d'un sous-officier, 1870
by Amédée Delorme
About the author
Born in Toulouse on September 10, 1850, and later dying in Maisons-Laffitte on March 22, 1936, Amédée Delorme was a French writer whose full name was Amédée Louis Gustave Delorme. Bibliographic records describe him as a man of letters, a member of the Société des gens de lettres, and a former bureau chief at the French Ministry of War.
Delorme also volunteered during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, an experience that clearly shaped his writing. His best-known work is Journal d’un sous-officier, published in the early 1890s, a book rooted in that conflict and noted by the Académie française among his recognized works.
He wrote in more than one genre: alongside war-related writing, he also published A chacun sa chimère, a one-act prose comedy. The Académie française lists Journal d’un sous-officier and Mariage mixte et divorce among the works that earned him Montyon Prizes, suggesting that his career reached both literary and moral-social subjects.