1. Camille Lemonnier was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist.
10 Facts About Camille Lemonnier
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Camille Lemonnier studied law, and then took a clerkship in a government office, which he resigned after three years.
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Camille Lemonnier published a Salon de Bruxelles in 1863, and again in 1866.
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Camille Lemonnier turned aside from local subjects for some time to produce a series of psychological novels, books of art criticism, etc.
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In 1888 Camille Lemonnier was prosecuted in Paris for offending against public morals by a story in Gil Blas, and was condemned to a fine.
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Camille Lemonnier represented his own case in Les Deux consciences.
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Camille Lemonnier spent much time in Paris, and was one of the early contributors to the Mercure de France.
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Camille Lemonnier began to write at a time when Belgian letters lacked style; and with much toil, and some initial extravagances, he created a medium for the expression of his ideas.
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Camille Lemonnier explained something of the process in a preface contributed to Gustave Abel's Labeur de la prose.
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Camille Lemonnier's prose is magnificent and sonorous, but abounds in neologisms and strange metaphors.