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Maurice Magre (Occitan: Maurici Magre; 2 March 1877 - 11 December 1941) was a French writer, poet, and playwright.
He was an ardent defender of Occitan, and did much to publicize the martyrdom of the Cathars in the 13th century. For his historical novels on Catharism, Magre is particularly in line with the historian Napoléon Peyrat, in the sense that the author often prefers legends and the romantic epic to historical truth.
Biography
The son of a subprefect, he wrote his first poems at the age of fourteen. His first collections of poetry were published in 1895 in a small magazine called Les Essais de jeunes, to which Jean Viollis and Marc Lafargue also contributed. After moving to Paris to study law, he met the poet and novelist Saint-Georges de Bouhélier and had four collections of poetry published there beginning in 1898. He served as secretary to an actor and later to the playwright Henry Bataille.
During the first part of his life, living in a seedy hotel on Rue Serpente, he led a bohemian and dissolute life and even became an Opium addict. He experimented with every form of pleasure and sought out every kind of ecstasy. This period of decadence inspired some of his works, such as Advice to a Poor Young Man Who Comes to Paris to Write Literature, The Conquest of Women: Advice to a Young Man, and Confessions: On Women, Love, Opium, the Ideal, etc. Despite his scandalous reputation, he nevertheless became a famous and beloved author. On the occasion of the publication of one of his books in 1924, Le Figaro wrote: “Magre is an anarchist, an individualist, a sadist, an opium addict. He has every flaw, yet he is a truly great writer. His work is a must-read.”
