Summary: Henry Céard, born in Bercy on November 18, 1851 and died in Paris on August 16, 1924, was a French novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic. A naturalist writer, he was a close friend of Émile Zola until the Dreyfus Affair. First employed at the War Ministry, he was successively attaché to the office of the Prefect of the Seine, then deputy director of the library of the City of Paris at the Carnavalet Hotel. He collaborated on various sheets as a literary and dramatic critic and participated in the collective collection of the Soirées de Médan with his short story La Saignée, recounting an episode of the siege of Paris.

Books of Henry Céard