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Louis Chadourne
1890–1925
A French novelist, poet, and literary critic whose brief life fed a vivid body of travel-shaped, reflective writing. Born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1890 and gone by 1925, he remains one of the striking early voices of 20th-century French literature.
4 Audiobooks
L'inquiète adolescence
by Louis Chadourne
Le pot au noir
by Louis Chadourne
Le Maître du Navire
by Louis Chadourne
Terre de Chanaan : roman
by Louis Chadourne
About the author
Louis Chadourne was a French writer born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1890. Sources describe him as a poet, novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic, and he is also remembered as the elder brother of the novelist Marc Chadourne.
He is often associated with travel writing and with a restless, observant style shaped by movement and distance. Accounts of the Chadourne family note that Louis and Marc were seen as écrivains voyageurs—traveling writers—and Louis’s surviving work includes novels, stories, and criticism produced during a notably short life.
Chadourne died in 1925. Though he did not live long, his work has continued to be cataloged and republished, helping preserve the voice of a writer who brought curiosity, sensitivity, and a feeling of modern unease to his books.