Adolphe Chenevière

Who was Adolphe Chenevière?

Adolphe Chenevière, D.ès.L. was a fin de siècle Swiss novelist, short story writer, and literary scholar.

Adolphe Chenevière was born to Arthur Chenevière and Susanne Firmine. He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris; his thesis, Bonaventure Des Périers, sa vie, sa poésie, examined the life and poetic oeuvre of the embattled 16th-century author Bonaventure des Périers. E. Plon published the thesis in 1885, and also published Chenevière's Latin dissertation on Plutarch, De Plutarchi Familiaribus, in the following year. Having completed his studies, Chenevière married Blanche Ernestine Augustine Lugol in 1885; the next year, their first son, Jacques Chenevière, was born in Paris. In 1888, their second son, André Alfred, was born, but he did not survive infancy; Chenevière's mother, too, died that year.

From the late 1880s through the turn of the century, he wrote a steady stream of novels, including various romances published by Alphonse Lemerre. One of his stories, "Tonton", was translated into English and included in the third volume of the International Short Stories series published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910. Stratford Magazine republished this translation in their September 1927 issue, ten years after Chenevière's death.