biography
pronunciation:
[zhoov]
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| lived:
| (1887–1976)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Arras, N France. During World War 1 he worked as a volunteer hospital orderly in Switzerland, and wrote pacifist veses. Anguished by the notion of sin, he became a Catholic in 1924, and turned more towards religious poetry, producing Les Noces (1931), Sueur de Sang (1933), Diademe (1949), and Moires (1962). His novels include Paulina 1880 (1925) and Aventure de Catherine Crachat (1947). He also wrote critical essays on Delacroix, Courbet, and Mozart. In 1966 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie by the Académie Française. |
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