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Emmanuel Bove, known also by the pseudonyms Emmanuel Bove, Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois, was a French writer, born April 20, 1898 and deceased July 13, 1945, in Paris.

Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on April 20, 1898, in Paris to a Russian father and Luxembourgian mother.

Bove enrolled at l'Ecole Alsacienne until 1910 at which point he left to continue his studies at the Calvin de Geneve school. It was during this time that Bove's father left his mother for an Englishwoman named Emily Overweg and Emmanuel decided to become a novelist. In 1915, Bove traveled to England to complete his studies and in 1916 he returned to Paris.

In 1921 he married Suzanne Vallois and moved to the suburbs of Vienna. Many of his first books are set in Austria and were published under the pseudonym Jean Vallois. In 1922, he returned to Paris where he lived alone.

In 1923 he reunited with Suzanne in Paris, where he began his work in journalism. Suzanne read one of his short stories and recommended he publish it. From this suggestion came My Friends, published in 1924, a novel that was to become a success. In 1928 he met Louise Ottensooser who introduced him to many Parisian artists and won the Prix Figuiere.

Bove published regularly until the Second World War. He was conscripted as a worker from March 1940 until 1943. Wishing to return to London, he refused publication during the German occupation of France. In 1942, before his conscription expired, he moved to Algeria where he wrote his last three novels.

Bove's fragile health subjected him to the diseases and infections of an unfamiliar Algerian environment. He died on July 13, 1945, of cachexia and heart failure.