Jean Schopfer (28 May 1868 – 9 January 1931) was a tennis player competing for France, and a writer, known under the pseudonym of Claude Anet. He reached two singles finals at the Amateur

French Championships The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...

, winning in 1892 over British player

Fassitt Francis L. Fassitt was an American tennis player residing in France who finished runner-up to Jean Schopfer in the singles event of the Amateur French Championships The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as R ...

, and losing in 1893 to

Laurent Riboulet Laurent Riboulet (18 April 1871 in Lille, France – 4 September 1960 in Lille, France) was a tennis player competing for France. He reached two singles finals at the Amateur French Championships, winning in 1893 over defending champion Jean Schop ...

Biography

Schopfer was born 28 May 1868,

Morges Morges (; la, Morgiis, plural, probably ablative, else dative; frp, Môrges) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud and the seat of the district of Morges. It is located on Lake Geneva. History Morges is first mentioned in 1288 as ''M ...

, Switzerland. Educated at the

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and the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admissi ...

, Schopfer started writing in 1899. Under the name Claude Anet, Schopfer published many books, including ''La Révolution Russe'', written after a trip to Russia during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

, ''Mayerling'', based on the Mayerling Incident, and ''Simon Kra'', a biography of tennis player

Suzanne Lenglen Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (; 24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World ...

. His 1920 novel '' Ariane, jeune fille russe'' has been adapted into a number of films including '' Ariane'' and '' Love in the Afternoon''. He died on 9 January 1931 in Paris.

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* * * * 19th-century French people 19th-century male tennis players French journalists French male tennis players French people of Swiss descent People from Morges University of Paris alumni 1868 births 1931 deaths French male non-fiction writers {{France-tennis-bio-stub