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Henri Vernes was the child of Valérie Dupuis and
Alphonse LĂ©on Dewisme. After his parents separated, he was raised by his maternal grandparents. At age sixteen he dropped out of high school and worked for a time as helper in his father's butcher shop, but eventually went back to school at
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Dewisme used a number of other pseudonyms, including
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he served in the army's intelligence services. In 1944 he published his first book,
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