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Pierre la Mure

Born

in Nice, France

June 15, 1899

Died

January 01, 1976

Genre

Historical Fiction

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Pierre La Mure (15 June 1899, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes - 1976, California) was a French author. He wrote the 1950 novel Moulin Rouge about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also wrote the book Beyond Desire about the life of Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel "Claire de Lune" on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published in 1962.

Bibliography:

* John D. Rockefeller (1937)
* Gongs in the Night, Reaching the Tribes of French Indo-China (1943)
* Moulin Rouge; a novel based on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (American edition 1950)
* Beyond Desire: A Novel Based on the Life of Felix and Cécile Mendel ...more

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	Moulin Rouge 4.37 avg rating — 1,971 ratings — published 1947 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clair de Lune 4.36 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1947 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Desire 3.82 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1932 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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― Pierre la Mure, Moulin Rouge

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“el corazón hambriento de cualquier migaja se alimenta”
― Pierre la Mure, Moulin Rouge

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What's the Name o...: Biographical novel of Mendelssohn where he discovers lots of forgotten works by Bach. Read in 1980s/early 1990s, but it was an old hardback of my parents, then, so could probably have been anything from the 1930s on.	4	15	Nov 18, 2025 03:30PM

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