André Chamson
Known for: Writing
Born: June 6, 1900
Died: November 9, 1983
André Chamson (6 June 1900 – 9 November 1983) was a French archivist, novelist and essayist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the father of the novelist Frédérique Hébrard. Chamson was born at Nîmes, Gard. Having studied at the École des chartes, as an archiviste paléographe (graduation 1924), he was the founder-director of the journal Vendredi and a museum curator before the Second World War. In July 1937 he attended the Second International Writers' Congress, the pu…
