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Jean Schopfer
Jean Schopfer (28 May 1868 – 9 January 1931) was a tennis player competing for France, and a writer, known under the pseudonym of Claude Anet. He reached two singles finals at the Amateur French Championships, winning in 1892 over British player Fassitt, and losing in 1893 to Laurent Riboulet.
Biography.
Schopfer was born 28 May 1868, Morges, Switzerland.
Educated at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, Schopfer started writing in 1899. Under the name Claude Anet, Schopfer
a metropolis..." and Montgomery Schuyler, another architecture critic, claimed that "We all agreedall of us, that is, who pay attention to such thingsthat the Commissioners were public malefactors of high degree." Jean Schopfer, writing in "The Architectural Record" in 1902, said of them "Men of genius were needed ... Unhappily, they were ... men devoid of all imagination," while historian Thomas Janvier, in his book "In Old New York" (1894), wrote of the "deplorable results"