About Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (4 February 1862 in Dijon – 2 April 1942 in Paris) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist. After his first three works, Estaunié's novels began to focus on everything that is silenced and unspoken in his characters' lives. In this period, spiritual phenomena, such as "the soul, the 'secret life', and solitude", were "the dominating realities in Estaunié's universe" In 1908, his novel La Vie secrète won the Prix Femina. His first novels, Un simple and Bonne Dame, published in 1891, were naturalistic works about provincial mores.
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