Duvernois, Henri

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DUVERNOIS, HENRI

DUVERNOIS, HENRI (pen name of Henri Simon Schwabacher ; 1875–1937), French author and journalist. Duvernois' popular melancholy and ironical stories of everyday life in Paris, influenced by Maupassant, include the novels Crapotte (1908), Faubourg Montmartre (1914), Edgar (1919), and Maxime (1927). Duvernois also published a volume of one-act comedies (1928).

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