Michel Georges-Michel

Michel Georges-Michel (3 November 1883 – 31 March 1985), was a French painter, journalist, novelist, and translator of English and American authors.

Georges-Michel studied at Beaux Arts, a student of Othon Friesz and Dufy, and at l'École du Louvre.

Founder of the prix de Rome for poetry, he worked on exhibitions of Matisse and Soutine at the Venice Biennale.

He was also the initiator of the first cinema festivals and was president of the Association of dance writers and critics as well as the vice-president of the French Artistic Press Union.

One of his most famous works, Les Montparnos, known as the first Georges-Michel, was written in 1923, published in 1929 and reprinted for the mass market (by Le Livre de Poche in 1976).