author
Marcel Boulenger
1873–1932
A prize-winning French novelist who also fenced at an Olympic level, he brought an unusual mix of wit, style, and sporting energy to his work. He is especially remembered for playful literary pastiches and invented autobiographies that blur the line between fiction and performance.
5 Audiobooks
Le fourbe
by Marcel Boulenger
Au pays de Sylvie
by Marcel Boulenger
Lettres de Chantilly
by Marcel Boulenger
La Querelle de l'Orthographe
by Marcel Boulenger
Couplées: Roman
by Marcel Boulenger
About the author
Born in Paris on September 9, 1873, Marcel Boulenger was a French novelist, critic, and journalist whose writing earned major literary recognition, including the Prix Née of the Académie Française in 1918 and the Prix Stendhal in 1919.
He is best known for pastiches and for imaginative faux autobiographies written in the voices of invented characters. Sources also credit him as one of the early writers to bring sport into literature, which fits neatly with his life beyond books.
Boulenger was also an accomplished fencer, winning a bronze medal in foil at the 1900 Paris Olympics. He died in Chantilly on May 21, 1932.