Maurice Schwob (7 May 1859 – 30 March 1928) was a French
publisher
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of the daily newspaper ',
Schwob, Maurice (1859–1928)
BNF (accessed 5 June 2022) based in Nantes
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. The newspaper had been sold to Maurice's father, Georges Schwob, in 1876 by Evariste Mangin.
He was born into a cultivated Jewish family. His father, George Schwob, was a friend of Théodore de Banville and Théophile Gautier. His mother, Mathilde Cahun, came from a family of intellectuals from Alsace. He was the brother of symbolist writer Marcel Schwob
Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bolaà ...
and the father of the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portr ...
(born Lucy Schwob).
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1859 births
1928 deaths
19th-century French Jews
19th-century French newspaper publishers (people)
20th-century French newspaper publishers (people)
French male writers
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