1. In 1907, Louis Pergaud gave up permanently on teaching and moved to Paris to pursue a literary career.
12 Facts About Louis Pergaud
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Louis Pergaud was born on 22 January 1882, in Belmont, Doubs.
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Son of a republican schoolmaster, Louis Pergaud was encouraged to excel in his studies.
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In 1907, Louis Pergaud left Landresse and his wife, for Paris, where he joined Leon Deubel, a longtime friend and inspiration.
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In Paris, Louis Pergaud suffered through extreme poverty, even as he worked as a clerk and then as a schoolteacher, in an effort to realize his dream of literary success.
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In 1913 Louis Pergaud published the novel, Le Roman de Miraut, in which an animal had the leading role.
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Louis Pergaud wrote numerous other short stories about the people and animals of his native Franche-Comte, which would be published posthumously.
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Louis Pergaud's works remain popular in France; La Guerre des boutons has been reprinted more than thirty times.
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Louis Pergaud had tried to register as a pacifist, but he was conscripted into the French Army at the outbreak of the First World War.
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Louis Pergaud had been placed in the active reserve following his national service twelve years before.
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On 7 April 1915, Louis Pergaud's regiment attacked the Imperial German Army's trenches near Fresnes-en-Woevre, during which Louis Pergaud was shot and wounded.
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Louis Pergaud fell into barbed wire, where he became trapped.