Philéas Lebesgue
Philéas Lebesgue (26 November 1869 – 11 October 1958) was a French essayist, translator, poet, novelist, literary critic, and editor of ''Mercure de France.'' Life and career Philéas Lebesgue was born on 26 November 1869 in La Neuville-Vault, Picardy, France, to a family of farmers. He later embarked on a literary career, which included travels to Portugal, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia, the three countries for which he contributed literary chronicles to ''Mercure de France''. After studying Latin, English, and Greek in college, Lebesgue went on to learn additional languages and wrote his first poems. In 1896, he became an editor at ''Mercure de France'', an international journal. He served as the chronicler of "Portuguese Letters," a role he held until 1951. In 1913, he was one of the few critics to discover and appreciate the great Portuguese poet Fernando Fernando Pessoa, Pessoa. Philéas Lebesgue studied at least sixteen foreign languages, including German, Englis ...
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La Neuville-Vault
La Neuville-Vault (Picard: ''L’Neuville-Weu'') is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):