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Camille Meillac
A little-known French writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, remembered for popular and sentimental fiction as well as works like Les sports à la mode. Much about her personal life remains uncertain, which gives her surviving books an extra air of mystery.
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Les sports à la mode
by Camille Meillac
About the author
Camille Meillac was a French-language author active around the turn of the 20th century. Library records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France identify one Camille Meillac as living from 1879 to 1963, while other catalog records are less precise, so some basic biographical details are still not fully settled.
She is associated with popular and sentimental fiction, and modern publisher notes credit her with titles such as La faute d'une autre and Le rachat. She is also known for Les sports à la mode, a lively nonfiction work that reflects the growing interest in sport, leisure, and modern social life in its era.
Although her civil identity is not well documented today, her books have endured through library catalogs and digital archives, including Project Gutenberg. That surviving body of work makes her an intriguing figure: an author whose writing outlasted the public record of her life.