Léon Cladel
Léon Cladel (Montauban, 22 March 1834 – 21 July 1892, Sèvres) was a French novelist.
The son of an artisan, he studied law at
Fête votive de Saint-Bartholomée Porte-Glaive (1872). Une Maudite (1876) was judged dangerous to public morals and cost its author a month's imprisonment. Other works by Cladel are Les Va-nu-pieds (1873), a volume of short stories; N'a-qu'un-oeil (1882), Urbains et ruraux (1884), Gueux de marque (1887), and the posthumous Juive errante (1897). He died in Sèvres
on 21 July 1892.
References
- La Vie de Léon Cladel (Paris, 1905), by his daughter Judith Cladel, containing also an article on Cladel by Edmond Picard, a complete list of his works, and of the critical articles on his work.
- New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors [permanent dead link]
- The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1919), Arthur Symons
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cladel, Léon". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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