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Henry de Forge
A prize-winning French writer of the early 20th century, he built a career across novels, journalism, theater, and song. His work moved easily between popular storytelling and the wider literary life of Paris.
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Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour
by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, Jean du Rébrac
About the author
Born in Nevers in 1874 and known as Henry de Forge, he was a French writer whose career stretched across several forms, including fiction, plays, and lyrics. He died in Paris in 1943.
French reference sources credit him with a substantial body of published work, and the record of his career suggests a writer who was active both in literary circles and in the popular press. He received the Prix Montyon twice, in 1918 and 1935, as well as the Prix de Jouy in 1929, and he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1925.
Today, Henry de Forge is remembered as one of those versatile authors who helped shape everyday French reading culture in the decades before and between the world wars.