Background
Adolphe Chenevière was born to Arthur Chenevière (a state counsellor for the canton of Geneva) and Susanne Firmine (née Munier).
novelist short story writer scholars
Adolphe Chenevière was born to Arthur Chenevière (a state counsellor for the canton of Geneva) and Susanne Firmine (née Munier).
University of Paris.
He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris. His thesis, Bonaventure Des Périers, sa vie, sa poésie, examined the life and poetic works of the 16th-century author Bonaventure des Périers. East. Plon published the thesis in 1885.
Having completed his studies, Chenevière married Blanche Ernestine Augustine Lugol.
In 1886, Plon published De Plutarchi Familiaribus, Chenevière"s Latin dissertation on Plutarch. From the late 1880s through the end of the century, he wrote a steady series of novels, including various romances published by Alphonse Lemerre.
One of his stories, "Tonton", was translated into English and included in the third volume of the International Short Stories series published by Procurator-Fiscal Collier & Son in 1910. Stratford Magazine republished this translation in their September 1927 issue, ten years after Chenevière"s death.