Géo-Charles was the pseudonym of Charles Guyot, who is best-known as the Olympic Literary Man, with his own museum situated near to Grenoble. He was also an active sportsman. Guyot came to Paris at the age of 20, and started an apprenticeship in a publishing house. Two years later he was mobilized in World War I. After the war, he became an advertising broker in Paris, where he frequented the bohemian quarter of Montparnasse, and eventually founded the literary cabaret “Le Chameleon”. He became friendly with notable writers (e.g. Jean Cocteau and André Malraux) and artists (e.g. Tsuguharu Fujita and Frans Masereel). Guyot was also a knowledgeable art collector, and founded an avant-garde journal called Montparnasse Review. In 1924 he won a gold medal in the category literature of the Olympic Games art competitions for his Jeux Olympiques (The Olympic Games), a stage play combining sport, dance, poetry and music. The printed edition was illustrated by his friend Foujita. He also worked as a radio host and columnist, and published several collections of poems, many of them dealing with sport.
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