Francis Carco (1886-1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the Fantaisiste school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for L'Homme libre and Gil Blas. During the War he became aviation pilot at Etampes, after studying at the aviation school there. His works are picturesque, paint as they do Montmartre and being written in the argot of Paris. He has been called the "romancier des apaches." Carco held the ninth seat at Académie Goncourt from 1937-1958. He is buried in Cimetière de Bagneux. He was the author of: Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... Étampes is a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the Essonne département, on the Orléans railway, 50 km southwest of Paris. ... Montmartre seen from the centre Georges Pompidou (1897), a painting by Camille Pissarro of the boulevard that led to Montmartre as seen from his hotel room. ...   City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area... The Académie Goncourt is a literary organization based in Paris, France that was created by French writer and publisher Edmond de Goncourt in opposition to the then existing policies towards writers by the Académie française. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 44, avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine. ...

• Instincts (1911)
• Jésus-la-Caille (novel, 1914)
• Les Innocents (1917)
• Au coin des rues (tales, 1918, 1922)
• Les Malheurs de Fernande (sequel to Jésus-la-Caille 1918)
• Les Mystères de la Morgue ou le Fiancées du IVº arrondissement. Roman gai (1918)
• L'Equipe (1919)
• La Poésie (1919)
• Francis Carco, raconté par lui-meme (1921; in the collection Ceux dont on parle, directed by Marc Saunier)
• Promenades pittoresques à Montmarte (1922)
• Vérotchka l"Etrangère ou le Gout du malheur (1923), a novel which was sharply criticized by the French reviews. His other works include: Petits airs (poems) and Maman Petitdoigt.
• Le Roman de François Villon (1926), a heavily fictionalised biography of the 15th century poet.

See also

• Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française

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