Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline, was born on 27 May 1894 in Courbevoie. Wounded at the front as early as 1914 and decorated, he completed his medical studies in 1924, carried out missions for the League of Nations and opened a practice in Clichy. From 1937 he published violently antisemitic pamphlets. In 1944 he left France and made his way to Denmark; convicted after the war, then amnestied, he returned to France in 1951, practised medicine again in Meudon and died on 1 July 1961.

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• NovelJourney to the End of the NightVoyage au bout de la nuitLouis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932Literature