author
Léo Larguier
1878–1950
A French man of letters who moved with ease between poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, he brought a warm, observant voice to literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. His work is closely tied to both the Cévennes region where he was born and the Paris literary world where he made his name.
2 Audiobooks
Le dimanche avec Paul Cézanne (souvenirs)
by Léo Larguier
La Poupée
by Léo Larguier
About the author
Born in La Grand-Combe, Gard, on December 6, 1878, and later dying in Paris on October 31, 1950, Léo Larguier was a French poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist. Library and reference sources consistently describe him as a versatile literary figure rather than the author of a single defining genre.
He is especially remembered for the range of his writing and for his place in French literary circles. Reference sources also note that he served as a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1936 until 1950, a sign of the esteem he held among his contemporaries.
Larguier’s background seems to have mattered deeply to his identity: he was born in the mining town of La Grand-Combe, yet spent important years in Paris, where commemorative records place him on rue Saint-Benoît. That combination of provincial roots and metropolitan literary life helps explain the grounded, human scale often associated with his career.