Charles Vildrac

Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager",^[1] was a French playwright and poet.

Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.^[1]

He was a member of the l'Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.

Works

• Livre d'amour (1910)
• Chants du désespéré (1920), poems
• Le Paquebot Tehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Vildrac&action=editnacity (1920), a play
• Poèmes de l'Abbaye (1925), poems
• Prolongements (1927), poems
• La Brouille (1930)
• Le Jardinier de Samos (1932)
• Poucette (1936), a play
• Trois mois de prison (1942)
• D'après l'écho (1949)

External links

• Poems by Charles Vildrac

Notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b} 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item

• France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

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Date of birth	November 22, 1882
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Date of death	June 25, 1971
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