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Gabriel Chevallier


Born
in Lyon, France
May 03, 1895

Died
April 06, 1969

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Gabriel Chevallier (3 May 1895 � 6 April 1969) was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire Clochemerle.

Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des Beaux-Arts in 1911. He was called up at the start of World War I and wounded a year later, but returned to the front where he served as an infantryman until the war's end. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Following the war he undertook several jobs including art teacher, journalist and commercial traveller before starting to write in 1925. His novel La Peur (Fear) published in 1930 drew upon his own experiences and formed a damning indictment of the war. He was married with one s
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Fear

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4.19 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 1930 — 34 editions
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Clochemerle

3.80 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1934 — 114 editions
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Clochemerle-Babylon

3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1954 — 23 editions
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The Affairs of Flavie

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Sainte Colline

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Mascarade

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Clochemerle-Les-Bains

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“Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.”
Gabriel Chevallier, Fear

“I carry my liberty with me. It is in my thoughts, in my head. Shakespeare is one of my countries, Goethe another. You can change that badge that I wear, but you can’t change the way I think. It is through my intellect that I can escape the roles, intrusions, and obligations with which every civilisation, every community would burden me. I make myself my own homeland through my affinities, my choices, my ideas, and no one can take it away from me â€� I may even be able to enlarge it. I don’t spend my life in the company of crowds but individuals. If I could pick fifty individuals from each nation, then perhaps I could put together a society I’d be happy with. My first possession is myself; better to sent it into exile than to lose it, to change a few habits rather than terminate my role as a human being. We only have one homeland: the world.”
Gabriel Chevallier, Fear

“The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honourable and leisurely plunder.”
Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle

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