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Henri Mazel
1864–1947
A lively figure in French literary life at the turn of the 20th century, this journalist, playwright, and civil servant moved between Symbolist circles and public affairs. He is especially remembered for founding the review L’Ermitage and for writing across drama, criticism, and social commentary.
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Ce qu'il faut lire dans sa vie
by Henri Mazel
About the author
Born in Nîmes on February 11, 1864, Henri Mazel became a French journalist, dramatist, and government official. He studied law, earned a doctorate, and built a career that combined literature with public service, an unusual mix that helped shape the broad range of his writing.
Mazel was closely involved with the Symbolist world in the 1890s. He founded the literary review L’Ermitage and later contributed for many years to Mercure de France, where he wrote on social questions. Alongside journalism and criticism, he developed ideas about idealist theater and wrote plays and other books that reflect both artistic ambition and a strong interest in politics, religion, and society.
He died in Paris on October 10, 1947. Today, he is remembered less as a single-book author than as a versatile man of letters whose work connected literary experimentation with the intellectual debates of his time.