Victor Snell
Victor Snell (1874 - 1931), Swiss journalist.
Born in 1874, of Genevese origin, he is initially lawyer. He is the first editor association of the Canard connected of 1916 with 1931. He is also journalist with Humanity. He is sub-editor of Humanity of 1907 with 1912, he is a friend of Jean Jaurès. He holds in this newspaper a literary column and theatrical in the Twenties. He excelled in the literary hoax, and had two hobbies: the Piano, and the Grammar ( Grammar As a Guy Zag of Work). During the First World War, he ridiculed Maurice Barrès in a pastiche celebrates “ the Garden of Bars, by Bérénice ”. He is knight of the Légion of honor the August 21st 1925, and remains with the newspaper, contrary with Pierre Scize. He dies in 1931.
Anecdote
He will claim regularly with Benito Mussolini, described like a tyrant of carnival in the Canard connected, the amount of a debt contracted during the youth of the dictator. He had met Mussolini, in the years 1900, when that Ci was still militant a Socialiste pursued by the police force of its country. He claims to have lent a little money to this one which never returned him. From there the origin comes from the invariable response of the weekly magazine to each territorial claim of Mussolini: “ And my ten balls? ”.
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