How to Pronounce Achille Essebac
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Jan 29, 1868 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 01 Aug 1936 (aged 68)
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About Achille Essebac
- Achille Essebac (January 29, 1868 – August 1, 1936) was a French writer primarily known for his novel Dédé about an ill-fated homoerotic friendship between two schoolboys.
- Essebac was a pseudonym, since his original surname Bécasse is a derogatory word for goose. Essebac was a friend of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and defended him against accusations of indecency caused by Fersen's penchant for tableaux vivants at his house in Avenue de Friedland.
- In 1909, Essebac also contributed an article for Fersen's short-lived gay-interest journal Akademos.
- However, apart from the article, Essebac largely avoided writing about homosexuality after the Fersen scandal. Essebac was also a photographer of young men, preferably clothed in Renaissance or medieval theatrical costumes.
- A recently rediscovered album with 156 photographs by him was sold for €3,500 in Paris. In the 1920s and early 1930s the Dédé-bar existed in Berlin, which was a gay bar named after Essebac's best-known gay character from his novels.
