Maurice Schwob

Maurice Schwob (7 May 1859 – 30 March 1928) was a French publisher of the daily newspaper Le Phare de la Loire [fr],^[1] based in Nantes. The newspaper had been sold to Maurice's father, Georges Schwob, in 1876 by Evariste Mangin.

He was born into a cultivated Jewish family. His father, George Schwob, was a friend of Théodore de Banville and Théophile Gautier. His mother, Mathilde Cahun, came from a family of intellectuals from Alsace. He was the brother of symbolist writer Marcel Schwob and the father of the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob).

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