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Blaise Meliani
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Swiss writer (1887-1961)
OverviewAI-generated
Blaise Cendrars, born Frédéric Louis Sauser in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1887, was a male writer, poet, journalist, and war correspondent. He held citizenship in both Switzerland and France and wrote in French. During World War I, he served as a war correspondent and received the Commander of the Legion of Honour, the Croix de guerre 1914–1918, and the Médaille militaire. He also used the pseudonyms Jack Lee, Freddy Sausey, and Diogene.
Cendrars died in Paris in 1961 and was buried at Batignolles Cemetery in Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre. His medical history includes an amputation. His works are held in collections at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. His archives are kept at the Swiss Literary Archives.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, TMDb, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film & TV
Directing
Known for
- Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars — Self (archive footage)1972
- Venom and Eternity — Self1952
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1887
- Active to
- 1961
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Randomized Assessment of Rapid Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
· 2015 · cited 5,421x
- Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct
· 2018 · cited 5,043x
- Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy after Intravenous t-PA vs. t-PA Alone in Stroke
· 2015 · cited 4,677x
- Large language models encode clinical knowledge
· 2023 · cited 3,325x
- The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation
· 1982 · cited 2,713x
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Key facts
- Born
- Frédéric-Louis Sauser , ( 1887-09-01 ) 1 September 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds , Neuchâtel , Switzerland
- Died
- 21 January 1961 (1961-01-21) (aged 73), Paris, France
- Occupation
- Novelist , poet
- Literary movement
- Modernism , Futurism
- Notable works
- Sutter's Gold [ fr ] , Moravagine , Lice [ fr ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Place of death
- Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- Foreign Legion
- Image
- Cendrars 1916.jpg
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- Commons category
- Blaise Cendrars
- date of birth
- 1887-09-01
- date of death
- 1961-02-21
- archives at
- Swiss Literary Archives
- place of burial
- Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre
- birth name
- Frédéric Louis Sauser
- name in native language
- Blaise Cendrars
- has works in the collection
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
- medical condition
- amputation
- writing language
- French
- pseudonym
- Diogene
- P12674
- Montgolfier
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Sigriswil
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Blaise Meliani, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars ( French: [sɑ̃dʁaʁ]), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Early years and education
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