Garnier, Georges

(1868-1939)

   Georges Garnier was born in Mons on 12 April 1868. He began writing poetry in literary journals in the 1880s and, in 1910, he founded the weekly Pourquoi Pas? with other writers. A prolific author of operettas, poetry, and novels, Garnier, in his later works, such as Le Conservateur de la Tour Noire (The Conservator of the Tour Noire [1908]), illustrates the manners and psychological traits of the lower classes in Brussels. He wrote a three-part work under the pseudonym de Curtio titled Zievever (1906), Krott et Cie (1907), and Architek! (1910) using local dialect in delineating typical city types in a humorous vein. He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on 26 December 1939.

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