author
André Beaunier
1869–1925
A sharp-eyed French man of letters, he was known for bringing fiction, criticism, and theater writing together in a lively literary career. His work moved between novels and essays, with a strong place in Parisian cultural life at the turn of the 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
by André Beaunier
Picrate et Siméon
by André Beaunier
About the author
Born in Évreux on September 22, 1869, André Beaunier became a French novelist and literary critic whose career reached across books, journalism, and the stage. He studied at the École normale supérieure, a path that helped place him firmly inside the intellectual world of his time.
Beaunier wrote both fiction and criticism, and he became especially known as a literary reviewer. Sources describe him as serving as literary reviewer for Revue des Deux Mondes in 1912, and later as editor and drama critic for L'Écho de Paris in 1916. That mix of roles helps explain why his writing feels closely tied to the wider literary conversation of early 20th-century France.
He died in Paris in December 1925. Today he is remembered less as a single-book celebrity than as a versatile literary presence: a novelist, essayist, and critic whose work reflects the reading habits, debates, and tastes of his era.