Background
Marcel Prevost was born on March 1, 1862, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
In 1882 Marcel Prevost entered the École Polytechnique.
Marcel Prevost was born on March 1, 1862, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
Marcel Prevost received his education at the school in Bordeaux, the Ecole Sainte-Genevieve, and entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 1882.
With the culmination of his education, Marcel Prevost took a position as an engineer for the government-run French tobacco industry. During the same time, he spent his spare time writing, eventually penning his first novel, Conscrard chambergeot, which he published under the pseudonym Schlem. The work appeared in the publication Clairon.
Soon thereafter Prevost began work on his next project, Le Scorpion, which he completed in 1886 and appealed serially in Le Matin in 1887. This was followed by Mademoiselle Jaufre in 1889, by which time Prevost’s literary reputation was established, allowing him the luxury of pursuing his writing full time, which he continued during the following decades. Les Demi-vierges was popular in France, prompting Prevost to adapt the work for the stage, and it was produced in 1895 at the Gymnase. The work's popularity also led it to be translated into English; the first of his works to earn that distinction. In 1899, Prevost was hired by the New York Herald to cover the second court-martial proceedings of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He was also a regular contributor to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Literary critics felt that Prevost’s latter efforts were not up to the same standards as his earlier works. Novels such as Les anges guardiens (1913, "Guardian Angels") and Sa Maitresse et moi (1925, "His Mistress and I") were dismissed as pornography. However, Prevost did have one popular work during this time - the serialized Lett res a Francoise (1902-24). The work was comprised of fictitious letters that were written to young women in need of advice about life and love. These volumes became Prevost’s most widely read works, outreaching the popularity of even his best novels. Prevost certainly earned his share of recognition during his literary career.
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1891In 1909 Marcel Prevost was elected to the Académie française.
Marcel Prevost married Mademoiselle De Seroules and they made their home at Chateau de la Roche in southwestern France.