Marc-Adolphe Guégan
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Marc-Adolphe Guégan (1891–1959) was a French journalist and poet who was an early exponent of Japanese
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in the French language. He lived on the
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in the Atlantic. He was a friend of
Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portra ...
(née Lucy Schwob) and Suzanne Malherbe (artist name: Marcel Moore), with whom he collaborated on two books. An exhibition about his life and work was held during July–August 2009 on the île d'Yeu.http://www.ouest-france.fr/2009/07/20/l-ile-d-yeu/Exposition-autour-de-Marc-Adolphe-Guegan--56456545.html


Bibliography

* ''L'Invitation à la fête primitive'' (1921), with a triptych, "les Trois Epoques", by Marcel Moore – poetry * ''Oya-Insula ou l'Enfant à la conque'' (1923), prints by Marcel Moore – poetry * ''Trois petits tours et puis s'en vont'' (1924) – poetry * ''Mystique des tempêtes'' (1927) – poetry * ''Marc-Adolphe Guégan, poète de l'Île d'Yeu'' (2009) by Jean-François Henry


References

1891 births 1959 deaths French male poets 20th-century French poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers {{france-poet-stub