author
Clément Vautel
1876–1954
A sharp-eyed satirist of Parisian life, he moved easily between journalism, novels, and the stage. Best known for witty social comedies such as Mon curé chez les riches, he wrote with a lively sense of everyday manners and hypocrisy.
2 Audiobooks
Mon curé chez les riches
by Clément Vautel
Mon curé chez les pauvres
by Clément Vautel
About the author
Born in Tournai, Belgium, in 1876, he published under the name Clément Vautel, the pen name of Clément-Henri Vaulet. He became a French citizen and built a long career as a journalist, novelist, and playwright.
Vautel was especially known for satire. His fiction often poked fun at bourgeois habits, social ambition, and the small absurdities of modern urban life, giving his work an energetic, accessible humor that appealed to a wide audience.
He was also remarkably prolific, writing for newspapers as well as books and plays. Several of his works were adapted for film, and his reputation today rests largely on the popular comic novels that captured the tone of French society in the early 20th century.