Editing Blaise Cendrars (section)

==Early years and education==
He was born in [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]], [[Neuchâtel]], Switzerland, rue de la Paix 27,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arcinfo.ch/fr/regions/canton-de-neuchatel/blaise-cendrars-jean-buhler-remet-les-pendules-a-l-heure-556-1180394|title=Blaise Cendrars: Jean Buhler remet les pendules à l'heure|work=[[ArcInfo (newspaper)|ArcInfo]]|access-date=9 December 2017}}</ref> into a bourgeois [[francophone]] family, to a Swiss father and a Scottish mother.<ref>[[Richard Kostelanetz]], ''A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes'', Routledge (2013), p. 113</ref> They sent young Frédéric to a German boarding school, but he ran away. At the Realschule in Basel in 1902 he met his lifelong friend the sculptor [[August Suter (sculptor)|August Suter]]. Next they enrolled him in a school in Neuchâtel, but he had little enthusiasm for his studies. Finally, in 1904, he left school due to poor performance and began an [[apprenticeship]] with a Swiss watchmaker in Russia.

While living in [[St. Petersburg]], he began to write, thanks to the encouragement of R.R., a librarian at the [[National Library of Russia]]. There he wrote the poem, "[[The Legend of Novgorode|La Légende de Novgorode]]", which R.R. translated into Russian. Supposedly fourteen copies were made, but Cendrars claimed to have no copies of it, and none could be located during his lifetime. In 1995, the Bulgarian poet [[Kiril Kadiiski]] claimed to have found one of the Russian translations in [[Sofia]], but the authenticity of the document remains contested on the grounds of factual, typographic, orthographic, and stylistic analysis.<ref>Dany Savelli, « Examen du paratexte de la Légende de Novgorode découverte à Sofia et attribuée à Blaise Cendrars », in ''Revue de Littérature comparée'' n°313, 2005/1, pp.21-33.</ref>

In 1907, Sauser returned to Switzerland, where he studied medicine at the [[University of Bern]]e. During this period, he wrote his first verified poems, ''Séquences'', influenced by [[Remy de Gourmont]]'s ''Le Latin mystique''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cendrars |first=Blaise |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1245312539 |title=L'amiral |date=2014 |publisher=Gallimard |others=Claude,. Leroy |isbn=9782070457175 |location=[Paris] |oclc=1245312539}}</ref>