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Clément Lépidis
Clément Lépidis (1920–1997) was a French novelist of Greek descent. He was born Kleanthis Tsélébidis () into a Greek Orthodox family that had settled in Paris, having fled the massacre of the Greek population in Anatolia carried out by the Young Turks during the Greek-Turkish war.
Lépidis spent his childhood and adolescence in the Parisian neighbourhood of Belleville. His father, like many Greek and Armenian refugees, worked in the shoe trade, which Clément too tried at one point as he later related in his
Text by Sage, James. Editions of the Oak. Paris. La Loire. Denoël. Paris. 1978
- "Le Mal de Paris". ("The Evil of Paris"). Text by Lépidis, Clément. Arthaud Publications. Paris. Trois Secondes d’éternité. Contrejour. Paris. 1979
- "Ballade pour Violoncelle et Chambre Noir". (A Song for a Cello and a dark room"). co-author: Baquet, Maurice. Herscher Editions. Paris. 1980
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