Blaise Cendrars

FrdricLouis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swissborn novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.

He was born in La ChauxdeFonds, Neuchtel, Switzerland, rue de la Paix 27, to a bourgeois francophone family. They sent young Frdric to a German boarding school, but he ran away. At the Realschule in Basel in 1902 he met his lifelong friend the sculptor August Suter. Next they enrolled him in a school in Neuchtel, but he had little enthusiasm for his studies. Finally, in 1904, he left school due to poor performance and began an apprenticeship with a Swiss watchmaker in Russia.

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