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Albert Camille Touchard

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Albert Camille Touchard

Aliases: Albert Touchard

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1876-02-07 (Paris)
Died
unknown
Nationality
France
Languages
French

Career

Occupations
novelist
Active Years
1900-1935

Awards

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1935
Work: La Guêpe
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Guêpe

1934 novel

The wasp refers to the many little ways whereby the Germans express their hostility to the French or spy upon Bernier's actions. The novel concludes: 'On peut mourir d'un accident banal, d'une emotion legere, d'un rien: On peut mourir d'une piqure de guepe!'

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Legacy

Best remembered as author of La Guêpe (1934) which won Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1935.