Louis Dumur

Louis Dumur

Louis Dumur (1860-1933) was born in Geneva but became known as a writer in Paris, where he founded the magazine La Pléiade in the company of the interesting art critic and writer George-Albert Aurier and other young authors. Along with Alfred Vallette and Aurier himself, plus the regulars of the café de la Mère Clarisse (a true "pleiad" of symbolist talents of the time: Remy de Gourmont, Alfred Jarry, Albert Samain, Jean Moréas, Jules Renard ...), it would be one of the founders of the renewed Mercure de France magazine, later converted into an editorial. Dumur was editor-in-chief of the magazine and later secretary general