author
René Maizeroy
1856–1918
A prolific French novelist and journalist, he moved from a military career into popular fiction and became known for sharp, lively stories about Parisian life. Writing under several names, he published widely from the 1880s into the years just before his death in 1918.
2 Audiobooks
La fête
by René Maizeroy
L'amour prodigue
by René Maizeroy
About the author
Born in Metz on May 2, 1856, René Maizeroy was the pen name of Baron René-Jean Toussaint. He trained at Saint-Cyr, the famous French military academy, and began writing while serving as an officer before leaving the army in 1880 to devote himself to literature.
He went on to become a remarkably productive novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His early books were noted for their military settings, but he later became especially associated with novels of contemporary manners, often centered on society, romance, and the moods of urban life. He also published under several other pseudonyms, a sign of just how active he was in the literary press.
Maizeroy died in Paris on November 8, 1918. Though not as widely remembered today as some of his contemporaries, he left behind a large body of fiction that offers a vivid glimpse of French popular literature at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.