- Jehan Rictus
Jehan Rictus (
September 3 ,1867 -November 6 ,1933 ) was a Frenchpoet , born Gabriel Randon de Saint Amand inBoulogne-sur-Mer .After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon, having taken the pseudonym of Jehan-Rictus, found success in 1896 with poems in popular language which it interpreted in
Paris ian cabarets. These "Soliloques du Pauvre" (Soliloquies of the Poor) were published the following year. Some other volumes of verse followed, until "le Coeur populaire" in 1914. At the time ofWorld War I , he stopped publishing. He also forsook its anarchism for royalist opinions. He is also the author of an autobiographical novel, "Fil-de-fer", in regular french, and of a vastdiary , still unpublished.Céline 'sslang probably owes much to Jehan Rictus' language.Works
* "Les Soliloques du Pauvre" (1897)
* "Doléances" (1900)
* "Les Cantilènes du malheur" (1902)
* "Les Soliloques du Pauvre" (1903)
* "Fil de Fer" (1906)
* "le Coeur populaire" (1914)External links
* [http://www.florilege.free.fr/jehan-rictus Works and documents (in french)]
* [http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1103.htm#JehanRictus Jehan Rictus] Daily Bleed Calendar
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