Maxime Serpeille

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Maxime Serpeille, c. 1899. Photo by Jules Beau

Maxime-Edmond-Ambroise-Émile Serpeille (5 April 1858 – 23 September 1930), was a French journalist.

Biography

Maxime Serpeille was born at the 10th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Jean-Antoine-Joseph Serpeille, a landlord, and Cécile Dréan de Saint-Réal. He began his career as a journalist in 1880 at Le Gaulois. In 1885, Maxime Serpeille married Christine de Gobineau (1857–1944), daughter of Count Arthur de Gobineau. Before their divorce in 1907, the couple had two sons, Clément (1886–1944) and Louis (1889–1956).

Around 1887, he became one of Pierre Giffard's closest collaborators at the Petit Journal, where he wrote under the pen name "Coqhardy" (also used by René Maizeroy). Serpeille then wrote for the Vélo and Gustave Téry's L'Œuvre, for which he was the editorial secretary.

In 1898, he launched an illustrated fortnightly magazine, La Presse internationale, of which he was editor in chief, with Maurice Feuillet as artistic director. From 1902 to 1913, he directed the musical score publishing house M. Serpeille. In 1910, he was general secretary of the Chorégies d'Orange. In 1918, he was general secretary of La Vérité, a pacifist newspaper which counted Boris Souvarine among its contributors.

Officer of Public Instruction since 1892 and Knight of Agricultural Merit since 1903, Serpeille was named Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1925.

He died in Paris on September 23, 1930 and was buried on September 27 after a funeral in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy.

External links

• Works by Maxime Serpeille at Gallica