Pierre de Lano

Born Jean Pierre Augustin Gueheneuc de Lano, Pierre de Lano was a French writer and journalist associated with the busy literary and press culture of his time. He wrote under the name Pierre de Lano and built a career that crossed several forms, including fiction, journalism, and dramatic writing.

He is remembered as one of those versatile Belle Époque authors who worked close to the rhythms of everyday cultural life, contributing to the kind of writing that connected newspapers, popular literature, and performance. That mix gives his work a lively historical interest today, especially for readers curious about French literary life at the end of the 19th century.

Sources consulted during this search agree that he died in Paris in 1904, but they do not fully match the dates given in the prompt. The records found identify him as born on September 20, 1852, in Thérouanne, France, and dying on May 25, 1904, in Paris.