author
Ch. Wilhelm
Best known today for the short French tale Le duel au balai, this elusive writer left behind a comic story of village pride, old military stubbornness, and an unexpectedly memorable broom duel.
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About the author
Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable online sources during this search. The name appears in library and Project Gutenberg records as Ch. Wilhelm, attached to the French work Le duel au balai.
That story was originally presented as an extract from the newspaper La Patrie, dated February 27 and 28, 1879. Project Gutenberg and library listings describe it as a short work of fiction in French, and modern summaries note its humorous tone and its focus on clashing personalities in a small French village.
Because firmly sourced details about the author's full identity, life, and career were not readily available, it is safest to treat Ch. Wilhelm as a little-documented late-19th-century author known, at least online, mainly through this surviving text.