Miguel Zamacoïs

Miguel Zamacoïs (8 September 1866 in Louveciennes – 22 March 1955 in Paris) was a French writer, novelist, poet and journalist.

Miguel Louis Pascal Zamacoïs, born on 8 September 1866 in Louveciennes,[1] son of the Spanish Basque painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala and French Marie Louise Perrin.

He wrote L'Arche de Noé (1911), a book of poems about animals, and La Française (1915), military march with Camille Saint-Saëns for the music.

He used to quite often visit his friend and neighbour, the sculptor Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff who had his studio in Château de Vert-Bois, situated in Rueil-Malmaison where he spent some time and had a house built in 1903.

He died at 88, on 20 March 1955 in Paris, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery division 93, in the family grave of his brother-in-law, the French painter Jean Alfred Marioton (1863–1903).

Zamacois grave, in Père Lachaise cemetery , Paris