En France

Marius-Ary Leblond was the collective pen name of two cousins from Réunion, Georges Athénas (Marius Leblond, 1877-1953) and Aimé Merlo (Ary Leblond, 1880-1958), who were French writers, journalists, historians, and art critics. Musée Léon Dierx. They gained fame with novels like En France (1909), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and pioneered the colonial novel genre while contributing to the founding of the Musée Léon Dierx. Read more →