Le Lionnais François (03.10.1901 – 13.03.1984)

Le LionnaisFrench chess author, Honorary President of the Scientific Writers of France. Editor of the magazine Les Cahiers de l’Echiquier Français 1933-37 and of the chess department of the monthly scientific magazine Pour la Science, the leading player of the chess column of the weekly magazine Vu, author of the Chess Dictionary (1967).

A chemist by education but also an expert in mathematics.

In 1939 he published an important work Le Prix de Beauté aux Echecs – an anthology of chess games awarded for a beauty prize or the best game, which was republished in 1951 and 1970.