biography
pronunciation:
[zham]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1938)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Tournay, S France. His poetry reacted against Symbolism and followed a new trend known as Naturism, his first collection, De L'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir, appearing in 1889. Preferring to live in the country, he wrote of his childhood and the life of the islands his family came from. His conversion to Catholicism in 1905 influenced his later poetry, such as Les Géorgiques chrétiennes (1911) and La Vierge et les Sonnets (1919). Other works include novels, Le Roman du Lièvre, and a novel/poem Clar d'Ellébeuse. He also wrote a humorous pseudo-manifesto on jammisme. |
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