Occupation Writer Name Miguel Zamacois Nationality French Role Novelist | Spouse Marie Therese Ozanne Signature | |
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Born Miguel Zamacois8 September 1866Louveciennes,France ( 1866-09-08 ) Resting place Pere Lachaise Cemetery division 93 Died March 22, 1955, Paris, France | ||
Parents Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala | ||
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Miguel Zamacoïs (1866–1955) was a French novelist.
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Biography
Miguel Zamacoïs, born in Louveciennes on September 8, 1866, and died in Paris on March 20, 1955, was a writer, poet and journalist, son of the Spanish Basque painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala and Marie Louise Perrin.
On December 15, 1931, he married Marie Thérèse Ozanne in Versailles.
He wrote about 12 theater pieces, including Les Bouffons, created by Sarah Bernhardt, and is also author of musical livrets and opera comic musics, tales and fantaisists poems. during the 1930s, he wrote as a journalist in the newspaper Je suis partout. In 1948, he edited his memoirs, Pinceaux et stylos, describing 60 years of Parisian life.
He also wrote La Française (1915), military march with Camille Saint-Saëns for the music, and L'Arche de Noé (1911), a book of poems about animals.
He used to quite often visit his friend and neighbour, the sculptor Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff who had his studio in Château de Vert-Bois, situated in Rueil-Malmaison were he spent some time and had a house built in 1903. Among his others visitors were writers, artists, painters: Roger-Joseph Jourdain, Ernest Ange Duez, Jean-Louis Forain.
In 1953 he was made commander in the Legion of Honour.
He died in 1955 and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery division 93, in the family grave of Jean Alfred Marioton, French painter (1863–1903), his brother-in-law.