Edmond Lepelletier

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Edmond Lepelletier

1846–1913

A vivid witness to literary Paris, this French journalist and writer moved in the same circles as Paul Verlaine and Émile Zola, then turned those experiences into biographies, memoirs, novels, and political writing. His work offers a lively window into the personalities and debates of late 19th-century France.

4 Audiobooks

Emile Zola, Sa Vie—Son Oeuvre

Emile Zola, Sa Vie—Son Oeuvre

by Edmond Lepelletier

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 1

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 1

by Edmond Lepelletier, Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 2

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 2

by Edmond Lepelletier, Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 3

Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome 3

by Edmond Lepelletier, Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou

About the author

Born in Paris on June 26, 1846, Edmond Lepelletier was a French journalist, poet, novelist, biographer, and politician. He is especially remembered as a close childhood friend and relative of Paul Verlaine, and as a sharp observer of the literary world around him.

Lepelletier wrote across several genres, but he is often valued today for the firsthand perspective he brought to the writers and movements of his time. His books include work on Émile Zola, and his name is closely linked with accounts of the artistic and political life of fin-de-siècle France.

He died in Vittel on July 22, 1913. For modern readers, his appeal lies in that mix of insider access and literary curiosity: he did not just report on an era, he knew many of the people who shaped it.