Adolphe Chenevière

Adolphe Chenevière, D.ès.L. (1855–1917) was a fin de siècle Swiss novelist, short story writer, and literary scholar.

Life Adolphe Chenevière was born to Arthur Chenevière (a state counsellor for the canton of Geneva) and Susanne Firmine (née Munier). E. 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. Meanwhile, Chenevière and his wife had their first son, Jacques Chenevière, who was born in Paris. In 1888, their second son, André Alfred, was born, but he did not survive infancy; Chenevière's mother, too, died that year.

During the First World War, Chenevière volunteered at the International Prisoners-of-War Agency (IPWA) of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) like his son Jacques, who went on to become both a celebrated writer and a high-ranking member of the ICRC himself.

Stratford Magazine republished this translation in their September 1927 issue, ten years after Chenevière's death.

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