author
Camille Buffin
1871–1928
A Belgian baron and historical writer, he is best remembered for vivid accounts of Belgium’s experience in the First World War and for books that looked back to the country’s earlier history. His work brings patriotism, eyewitness material, and a strong sense of national memory together on the page.
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Brave Belgians
by Camille Buffin
About the author
Born in 1871 and died in 1928, Camille Buffin was a Belgian author, commonly listed in library records as Baron Camille Buffin. Catalog and public-domain records connect him with historical and documentary writing rather than fiction, especially books centered on Belgium’s past and its wartime experience.
His best-known title for English-language readers is Brave Belgians, published in translation in 1918. Library and archive records describe it as a collection of narratives about Belgian soldiers and the early fighting of World War I, shaped to honor courage, sacrifice, and resistance.
Buffin also wrote on earlier Belgian history. Bibliographic records link him to works such as Mémoires et documents inédits sur la révolution belge et la campagne de Dix-jours (1830-1831) and a book on Leopold of Saxe-Coburg before he became King of the Belgians, suggesting a writer deeply interested in the people and episodes that helped define modern Belgium.