Camille Meillac

Camille Meillac was a French author listed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as living from 1879 to 1963. Modern library and public-domain records confirm his name and preserve works published under it, including Les sports à la mode.

Because reliable biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources available here, much of his story has to be read through his publications. The fact that his work has been preserved by major library catalogs and Project Gutenberg suggests an author whose writing captured something distinctive about everyday culture and leisure in France.

For listeners today, Meillac is most interesting as a voice from another era: practical, observant, and rooted in the social world around him. His surviving work can feel like a small time capsule, bringing older French habits, amusements, and ways of thinking back to life.