C.I. Defontenay
Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay

Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay, born in 1841 and died in 1856, was a French writer and surgeon. Bachelor in literature in 1839 and science in 1841, he became a doctor in Saint-Germain en Laye then in Les Andelys, and in Les Thilliers-en-Vexin.

A renowned surgeon, he is often considered one of the pioneers of plastic surgery. He wrote essays on this subject under the pseudonym "Dr Cid". He was also interested in tuberculosis.

It is a strange book which is worth to him to be known today, Star or Ψ of Cassiopée (1854), which observes the fauna and the flora of another planet, considered as one of the pioneer works of science fiction . It was rediscovered and admired in the twentieth century by Raymond Queneau.