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René Émile Char ( French: [ʃaʁ]; 14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance .
René Char. 1907–1988. French poet René Char was born in L’Isle-sur-Sorgue in Provence and educated at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He moved to Paris after publishing his first book of poems, Cloches sur le Coeur (1928).
Jun 10, 2024 · René Char (born June 14, 1907, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Fr.—died Feb. 19, 1988, Paris) was a French poet who began as a Surrealist but who, after his experiences as a Resistance leader in World War II, wrote economical verse with moralistic overtones.
René Émile Char est le benjamin des quatre enfants issus des secondes noces, en 1888, de Joseph Emile Magne Char (1863-1918), négociant né à L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, et de Marie-Thérèse Armande Rouget (1869-1951), sœur de sa première épouse, Julia Rouget, morte en 1886 de tuberculose un an après leur mariage. À la naissance de René ...
René Char - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. René-Émile Char was born on June 14, 1907, in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, a town in the Provence region of France, to Émile Char and Marie-Thérèse (née Rouget).
René Char was a French poet whose work continues to captivate readers with its uncompromising vision and unconventional form. His poetry, characterized by aphoristic compression and startling imagery, emerged during a period marked by Surrealism and Existentialism.
Jun 6, 2023 · When poet René Char joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in WWII, he led sections of the maquis, rural guerrilla units, in Provence, and orchestrated dangerous parachute landings of arms and munitions — all the while continuing to write poetry.
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