Henri Béraud

Henri Béraud (21 September 1885 – 24 October 1958) was a popular French author and journalist, as well as a Nazi collaborator during the Second World War. His novel Lazarus (1925, The MacMillan Company) has been cited as an inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.
Béraud was sentenced to death in 1945 for his work with the Vichy French government during World War II; the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by President Charles de Gaulle, but he served only 5 years of his term before being released for health reasons Henri Béraud at Wikipedia.
==Selected Bibliography==
===Novels===
*Lazarus (1924)
==Behind the Mythos==
Béraud was a rabid Anglophobe, a fact H. P. Lovecraft was unlikely to have been aware of when reading Lazarus. How Lovecraft, himself a confirmed Anglophile, would have reacted to this is an interesting topic for debate.
==External Links==
*Henri Béraud at Wikipedia
*Henri Béraud at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
==References==
Category:Lovecraft's Inspirations (authors)
Category:Deceased (Real World)