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French poet, novelist and essayist
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Pierre Fons (16 July 1880 in Toulouse – 23 April 1917 in Cambo-les-Bains) was a French poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography

Born from a family of scholars, he obtained a law degree in Toulouse. He contributed to many magazines in the south of France. At 23, he published a volume of elegies, L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire, foreworded by Émile Pouvillon, a work distinguished by the Académie française. Maître es Jeux at the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse, he was part of a Toulouse school under the aegis of Marc Lafargue. Author of several collections of poems but also of a series of essays published under the title Le réveil de Pallas, Fons died during the First World War at age 36.

A small part of his library has been kept at the University of Perpignan since 2018.

Works

Essays

  • Le réveil de Pallas (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque internationale d'édition E. Sansot et Cie. 1906. p. 265..
  • Le Décor du quattrocento (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque internationale d'édition E. Sansot et Cie. 1907..
  • Sully Prud'homme : biographie... suivie d'opinions et d'une bibliographie (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque internationale d'édition E. Sansot et Cie. 1907. p. 48.

Poetry

  • L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire, poème (in French). Paris: Stock. 1904. p. 139.
  • La Divinité quotidienne, poèmes (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque internationale d'édition E. Sansot et Cie. 1908. p. 155.

Novel

  • L'Offrande au mystère (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque internationale d'édition E. Sansot et Cie. 1911. p. 146.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Pierre Fons (1880-1917) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire on Amazon
  3. Raoul Davray & Henry Rigal (1908). Anthologie des poètes du Midi : morceaux choisis accompagnés de notices biographiques et d'un essai de bibliography (in French). Paris: ollendorff. pp. 92–93.
  4. Marc Lafargue on BnF
  5. Le réveil de Pallas on Amazon
  6. "Au fil des dédicaces : la bibliothèque poétique du poète Pierre Fons". hypotheses.org (in French). 5 September 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  7. Sully Prud'homme : biographie on Amazon.
  8. La poésie du XXe siècle. I, tradition et évolution
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