Pierre La Mure


Pierre La Mure was a French author.
La Mure was born in Nice, in department Alpes-Maritimes. He published the 1950 novel Moulin Rouge about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also produced the book Beyond Desire about the life of Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel Claire de Lune on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published in 1962. He died in California in the United States, aged 67.