Biography
Author of humorous tales, e.g. Le Rêve jaune (1913), La Bête conquérante (1914), and of novels of adventure, often with an exotic element, and with pirates, and occasionally the devil, prominent among the characters (Le Chant de l'équipage, 1918; La Cavalière Elsa, 1921; La Vénus internationale, 1923). (The Oxford Companion to French Literature, Oxford, 1986, 433)