Alfred Masson-Forestier

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Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852-1912) was a French writer, born at Havre. He studied law and from 1884 to 1899 practiced his profession at Rouen. After 1899 Masson-Fortier settled in Paris and devoted all his time to literature, contributing to the Revue des deux Mondes, Temps, La Revue, etc. His stories, usually short and sober in content , are reminiscent of Merimée and Maupassant. He wrote:

• Difficile devoir (1879)
• Pour une signature, etc. (1892)
• La jambe coupée, etc. (1894)
• Remords d'avocat (1896), crowned by the French Academy
• Angoisses de juge, etc. (1898)
• Unje flambée d'amour (1900)
• A méme la vie (1901)
• L'Attaque nocturne (1903)

Among his dramas may be mentioned:

• Médecin de campagne (1901)
• Attaque Nocturne (1905), with A. de Lorde
• Baraterie (1905)
• Le droit du père (1907), with J. Monnier

The last years of his life were spent in a study of Racine and he published in 1911 Autour d'un Racine ignoré.

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