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Claude Anet

Morges, Switzerland, 1868 - 1931, Paris

BiographyClaude Anet was the pseudonym of the writer, tennis player, collector, and sometimes dealer Jean Schopfer, who was born on May 28, 1868, in Morges, Switzerland. He was educated at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris. His writing career began in 1899, and he published many books, including La révolution russe (Paris: Payot, 1917), written after a trip to Russia during the First World War. He collected Persian artworks, especially miniature paintings; his collecting activities in Iran were detailed in his book Feuilles persanes (Paris: Grasset, 1924). In 1913, he had an antiquities gallery at 18, rue Godot de Mauroy, where he specialized in Persian art, such as carpets, textiles, miniatures, and ceramics from Iran and Iraq. He periodically sold parts of his collection to other collectors and dealers, including Joseph Brummer, and through auction. For example, in 1920, his collection of Persian and Indo-Persian miniatures and manuscripts were auctioned by Sotheby’s London. Anet was twice married: first in 1895 to the American Alice Weatherbee, whom he divorced in 1903; and then in 1910 to Clarisse Langlois. Anet died on January 9, 1931, in Paris.

A Small but Choice Collection of Persian and Indo-Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts, the Property of Monsieur Claude Anet, 108 Rue du Bac, Paris, Consisting of Sixty Miniatures and Eleven Important Manuscripts, Many of the XVth and XVIth Centuries (London: Sotheby’s, 1920).
https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/annotations/claude-anet I.S. 12/5/2018

Jean Schopfer (28 May 1868 – 9 January 1931) was a tennis player competing for France, and a writer, known under the pseudonym of Claude Anet. He reached two singles finals at the Amateur French Championships, winning in 1892 over British player Fassitt, and losing in 1893 to Laurent Riboulet.[1]

Biography
Schopfer was born 28 May 1868, Morges, Switzerland.

Educated at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, Schopfer started writing in 1899. Under the name Claude Anet, Schopfer published many books, including La Révolution Russe, written after a trip to Russia during World War I, Mayerling, based on the Mayerling Incident, and Simon Kra, a biography of tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.[2]

His 1920 novel Ariane, jeune fille russe has been adapted into a number of films including Ariane and Love in the Afternoon.

He died on 9 January 1931 in Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schopfer I.S. 12/5/2018

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