Roger Milliot

Roger Milliot (1927, Le Cresot - 1968) was a French poet and painter. He served as a soldier in Indochina and as such had a pension. His health problems disabled him from becoming an ornamentalist. Like his idol René Char he preferred province life to Paris and lived in Montauban (where there is a museum of his paintings, mostly portraits of women). His depressions and feelings of frustration led him to suicide by drowning in the Seine river. His poems were published posthumously.

Works

* "QUI?", 1968
* "QUI?", 1969 - definitive edition, illustrated and with a portrait

Resources

* "", Roger Milliot by Félix Castan, p. 124
* Ivan Slavík, "Rozklenout srázné", Olomouc, 1993, p. 86