author
Pierre Maël
Best remembered as a hugely popular name in French youth fiction, this pen name actually belonged to two writers who teamed up to produce adventure and sentimental novels for young readers. Their books were major bestsellers around the turn of the 20th century and helped shape a whole era of popular reading.
3 Audiobooks
Un mousse de Surcouf
by Pierre Maël
Les derniers Hommes Rouges: Roman d'aventures
by Pierre Maël
Le roman de Joël
by Pierre Maël
About the author
Pierre Maël was the shared pseudonym of two French writers, Charles Causse and Charles Vincent. Together they wrote adventure and sentimental novels for young readers, publishing under this collective name from the late 19th century into the early 20th.
Their stories were widely read and commercially successful in their time, especially before the First World War. French library and reference sources describe Pierre Maël as one of the notable popular names in youth literature of that period.
Although the books later fell out of fashion after the Second World War, the name Pierre Maël still stands as a reminder of a period when moral, fast-moving fiction for younger audiences could reach a very large readership. The partnership is also an interesting example of a single author identity created by two collaborators.