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Georges de la Fouchardière
A sharp French satirist and journalist, he became widely known for the comic character Le Bouif and later gained lasting recognition for La Chienne, adapted for the screen by Jean Renoir and Fritz Lang.
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La chienne
by Georges de la Fouchardière
About the author
Born in Châtellerault on February 1, 1874, Georges de La Fouchardière was a French journalist, writer, humorist, and polemicist. He contributed to newspapers including Le Canard enchaîné and L’Œuvre, where his lively, irreverent writing made him a familiar voice in French journalism.
Beginning in 1910, he developed the comic character Le Bouif in a series of newspaper chronicles. The character became hugely popular and appeared in a long-running sequence published across several newspapers.
His literary work included La Chienne, a story later adapted into Jean Renoir’s film of the same name and Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street. He died in Saint-Brieuc on February 10, 1946.