Michel Corday (1869-1937) [romancier français] - Lettre à un Confrère - 1924

Michel Corday to a colleague.
June 17, 1924. 4 pages.

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Louis-Édouard Pollet, also known as Michel Corday, born in Paris on September 12, 1869, and died on January 12, 1937, in Serbonnes (Yonne), was a French novelist.

Michel Corday was initially a student at Collège Chaptal in Paris, then at the École polytechnique; he left the latter for the Fontainebleau school in 1890. He received the ranks of second lieutenant, then lieutenant of engineering, stationed in Versailles. He resigned from the army in 1895 to dedicate himself to writing.

His literary beginnings were happy and productive, initially in the journal Gil Blas, then in Le Gaulois, Le Journal, and La Vie Parisienne, where he wrote a charming series and intriguing studies on the lives of officers in barracks; these writings were later compiled into volumes. From then on, his literary career truly began with a series of novels: Married Young! in 1896, followed by Confession of a Siege Child, whose title parodies that of Musset's famous novel, in 1897.

A close friend of Anatole France, he published in 1925 the unpublished last pages of the author and founded in 1932 Le Lys Rouge, a group of admirers of the great writer. After being appointed in November 1914 as deputy head of the cabinet of the Minister of Commerce, and despite being a career officer, he became, notably under the influence of Anatole France, a fierce pacifist. Although he never belonged to any political party, he did not hide his sympathies for Socialism and Jaurès in particular, to whom he dedicated his work The Clean Hands: An Essay on Education Without Dogma.

He owned a country house in Serbonnes, where he spent long periods of the year. He died there and was buried in the forest, on the land of Serbonnes.

Charlotte Corday's parent dedicated a work to her after using her surname as a pen name, which later became her legal name by being added to her birth name.