Camille Buffin

Born in 1871 and dying in 1928, Camille Buffin was a Belgian author who is often listed as Baron Camille Buffin. Surviving library and archive records connect him most clearly with La Belgique héroïque et vaillante, a work later translated into English as Brave Belgians.

That book, published in English in 1918, presents Belgium’s resistance and suffering during the First World War for an international audience. Archive records also note that the English edition was translated by Alys Hallard, and that the work received the Audiffred Prize from the French Academy of Moral and Political Science.

Very little easily verifiable biographical detail seems to survive online beyond his dates and authorship, but the record that remains suggests a writer concerned with patriotism, public memory, and Belgium’s place in wartime history.