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Adolphe Chenevière, D.ès.L. (1855–1917) was a
fin de siècle
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Swiss novelist
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, short story
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writer, and literary scholar.
Life
Adolphe Chenevière was born to Arthur Chenevière (a state counsellor for the canton ofGeneva
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) and Susanne Firmine (née Munier). He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris
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; his thesis, ''Bonaventure Des Périers, sa vie, sa poésie'', examined the life and poetic works of the 16th-century author Bonaventure des Périers. E. Plon published the thesis in 1885. Having completed his studies, Chenevière married Blanche Ernestine Augustine Lugol.
In 1886, Plon published ''De Plutarchi Familiaribus'', Chenevière's Latin dissertation on Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ...
. Meanwhile, Chenevière and his wife had their first son, Jacques Chenevière, who was born in Paris. In 1888, their second son, André Alfred, was born, but he did not survive infancy; Chenevière's mother, too, died that year.
From the late 1880s through the end of the century, he wrote a steady series of novels, including various romances published by Alphonse Lemerre
Alphonse Lemerre (Canisy, Normandy, France, 1838 – Paris, France, 1912) was a 19th-century French editor and publisher, known especially for having been the first to publish many of the Parnassian poets.
Life
Alphonse Lemerre was the ei ...
. One of his stories, "Tonton", was translated into English and included in the third volume of the ''International Short Stories
''International Short Stories'' is a three-volume anthology of outstanding English, American, and French short stories and novellae of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. It was published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910. The first volume fe ...
'' series published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910.
During the First World War, Chenevière voluntereered at the International Prisoners-of-War Agency (IPWA) of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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(ICRC) like his son Jacques, who went on to become both a celebrated writer and a high-ranking member of the ICRC himself.
''Stratford Magazine'' republished this translation in their September 1927 issue, ten years after Chenevière's death.
Novels
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