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Émile Chénin - (Moselly) (12 August 1870 – 2 October 1918) was a French novelist. He was born in Paris.
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He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in the exams of 1895 (he was then 25 years old). He taught at Montauban, Orleans, in Paris (Lycée Voltaire) and Neuilly-sur-Seine (Lycée Pasteur). He appeared with Charles Péguy, among the first authors of the Cahiers de la Quinzaine (founded in 1901 by Peguy).
He was a regionalist author, deeply rooted in rural Lorraine where he is often in the paternal home of Chaudeney-sur-Moselle (Canton of Toul). He received the Prix Goncourt in 1907 for Le Rouet d'Ivoire. He died suddenly (heart attack) between Lorient and Quimper, in Chaudeney-sur-Moselle on 2 October 1918 in the Quimper-Paris train, back from holidays spent at Lesconil.
His archives (manuscripts, corrected proofs) were given in 2007 by his family to the city of Nancy; they are deposited at the Public Library.[1]