Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in
Jardres (
Vienne) 23 September 1906; died at
La Verrière
La Verrière () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
Population
Transport
La Verrière station is served by Transilien trains to Paris and Rambouillet.
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(
Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet.
The son of a winemaking family from
Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the
École normale in
Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetà e'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglomerat ...
and then at the
École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Sa ...
. He became friends with other normale poets including
Max Jacob and
André Salmon
André Salmon (4 October 1881, Paris – 12 March 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer) was a French poet, art critic and writer. He was one of the early defenders of Cubism, with Guillaume Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal.
Biography
André Salmon was born in P ...
, and taught in Parisian ''
lycées'' including the Lycée Lavoisier, but remained always attached to his region of birth.
Very active in the literary circles of the capital, his first published work was 'The Line of the Heart' in 1925. He was awarded the Grand Prix for poetry by the town of Paris in 1958
[Musée Maurice Fombeure]
on the Bonneuil-Matours website. Retrieved 29 July 2020. and was elected to the
Ronsard Academy. In 1980, he won the Grand Prix for Poetry of the
Académie Française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
.
A museum is dedicated to him in
Bonneuil-Matours, where his father was mayor from 1935 to 1947. It contains originals of his works as well as numerous personal effects.
[
The Dutch composer Marjo Tal set several of Fombeure's poems to music.]
Works
* ''Et s'il pleut cette nuit'' (A dos d'oiseau)
* ''La Rivière aux oies'' (Les éditions Rieder, 1932)
* ''Images de la nuit'' (Sagesse, 1935)
* ''Soldat'' ( Gallimard, 1935)
* ''Les Moulins de la parole'' (La Hune, 1936)
* ''Bruits de la terre'' (Debresse, 1937)
* ''Maléfices des fontaines'' (Feuillets de l'Îlot, 1939)
* ''À pas de souris'' (Carnets de l'oiseau-mouche, 1939)
* ''Chansons du sommeil léger'' (Debresse, 1941)
* ''D'amour et d'aventure'' (Debresse, 1942)
* ''Greniers des saisons'' (Éditions Seghers, 1942)
* ''Chansons de la grande hune'' (Les Amis de Rochefort, 1942)
* ''À dos d'oiseau'' (Gallimard, 1942. Republished 1971)
* ''Arentelles'' (Gallimard, 1943)
* ''Manille coinchée'' (La Fenêtre Ouverte, 1943)
* ''Ceux des Pays d'Ouest : Poitou - Aunis - Saintonge - Angoumois. Types et coutumes, 1943)
* ''Aux créneaux de la pluie'' (Gallimard, 1946)
* ''Orion le tueur'', with Jean-Pierre Grenier (Bordas, 1946), Théâtre Agnès Capri
* ''Sortilèges vus de près '' ( Denoël, 1947)
* ''J'apprivoise par jeu'' (R. Cayla, 1947)
* ''Les godillots sont lourds'' : récit : Souvenirs de la « drôle de guerre », de septembre 1939 à juillet 1940, (Gallimard, 1948)
* ''Poussière du silence'' (Seghers, 1950)
* ''Les Étoiles brûlées'' (Gallimard, 1950)
* '' Nicolas Eekman, Introduction à l'Album II'' (Paris, 1950)
* ''Dès potron-minet'' (Seghers, 1952)
* ''Le Vin de la Haumuche'' (éditions Bellenand, Paris 1952)
* ''Pendant que vous dormez'' (Gallimard, 1953)
* ''Une forêt de charme'' (Gallimard, 1955)
* ''Sous les tambours du ciel'' (Gallimard, 1959)
* ''Paris m'a souri'' with the photographer Ervin Marton (Alpina, 1959)
* ''Silences sur le toit'' (Éditions Saint-Michel, 1960)
* ''Quel est ce cœur ?'' (Gallimard, 1963)
* ''À chat petit'' (Gallimard, 1967)
* ''Les Étoiles brûlées'' and ''Quel est ce cœur ?'' (Gallimard, 1983)
* ''Le Vin de la Haumuche'' (UPCP, 1989)
* ''J'ai mal à mon village'' (Le Temps qu'il fait Le Temps qu'il fait is a French publishing house, first established in Cognac, and active since 1981.
History
Created and directed by Georges Monti, Le Temps qu'il fait is now located at Bazas, in Gironde. The house draws its name from the epo ...
, 1993)
Publications
* Maurice Fombeure, ''Paris m'a souri'', with photos by Ervin Marton, édition Alpina, 1959
* ''Maurice Fombeure'', éditions Seghers, Collection Poètes d'aujourd'hui, 1957
* Bibliographie des éditions des oeuvres de M. Fombeure / établie et annotée par Philippe Pineau, édition Musée Sainte-Croix, 1984
References
ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni
1906 births
1981 deaths
20th-century French poets
French male poets
20th-century French male writers
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