Léo Taxil is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Léo Taxil as French writer (1854–1907).
Léo Taxil was born at Marseille in 1854. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Lycée Thiers.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as journalist, publisher and writer.
The writing is recorded in French.
His name is attached above all to strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from France matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Léo Taxil died in 1907, aged 53. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
