Jacques Prevel
French writer
Intro | French writer | |
Places | France | |
was | Poet | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 21 July 1915, Bolbec | |
Death | 27 May 1951Sainte-Feyre (aged 35 years) |
Jacques Marie Prevel (1915 Paris - 1951 ) was a French poet. His real first name was Jacques, but he added 'Marie' not to be mistaken with Jacques Prévert, whose surname is pronounced in a very similar way. During the German occupation he lived in the famous Parisiene district Saint-Germain-des-Près.
Among his friends were the members of the Le Grand Jeu movement, René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, and also Antonin Artaud. Prevel considered Artaud his master, but Artaud admired Prevel's writings as well - he wrote about him (often "more portraying himself" ) and dictated his visions to him. Prevel also supplied Artaud with laudanum and opium. Prevel died of tuberculosis in the Sainte-Peyre hospital in the arms of his second love Jany.