Gabriel Chevallier

Gabriel Chevallier was born in Lyon in 1895. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and served in the French Army in the First World War. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur. After the war he earned his living at many diverse professions from art teacher to commercial traveller before devoting himself to his writing. He wrote Clochemerle in 1934 and Propre - rien in 1938. Gabriel Chevallier died in Cannes on 6th April 1969.