author
Emmanuel Bourcier
1880–1955
A French journalist and novelist with a reporter’s eye, he wrote vivid books shaped by travel, war, and public life. His work moves between fiction, reportage, and firsthand witness, giving it an immediate, lived-in feel.
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Under the German shells
by Emmanuel Bourcier
About the author
Born in Paris in 1880, Emmanuel Bourcier was a French man of letters who worked as a journalist, novelist, and literary writer. Library records also note that he wrote under the pseudonym Hubert Tourville, and that he was the brother of writer Charles Bourcier.
His career crossed several kinds of writing rather than staying in a single lane. Bibliothèque nationale de France records describe him as a littérateur, novelist, and journalist, and list dozens of works across the first half of the 20th century. Surviving bibliographic traces suggest a writer interested in current events, travel, and the human side of conflict.
Bourcier was also active in literary public life. The BnF catalogue notes that he served as vice-president of the Association des écrivains combattants in 1938 and was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1931. He died in Paris in 1955.