Hector Fleischmann, is a Belgian essayist, novelist and historian born in 1882 in Saint-Nicolas (Belgium) and died on February 4, 1913 in Paris.

His father is French and his mother Belgian, he is of Belgian nationality and spent his entire career in Paris, publishing his first poems in 1898, notably Cantilenes sentimentales and Six elegies of a melancholy young man.

Historian, novelist, mainly on the revolutionary period, he participated in various Lille journals with articles that were often published in booklets: Le Beffroi (from September 1901), La Revue Contemporaine illustrée (1902), The Hemicycle (1902).

In November 1901, he founded the Revue Verlainienne with the poet Léon Deubel, a review of art, aesthetics and Verlainian piety, which published 3 issues.
Freemason of the Victor Hugo lodge in Paris, he was director of the Revue des curiosities Révolutionnaires from November 1910.

In 1904-1905, he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper L'Événement and secretary-general of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
He was behind the Victor Hugo column in Waterloo and the Caillou ossuary in 1912.

He gave the first name of Maximilien to his son, in homage to Maximilien de Robespierre.

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