Gilles Cormery (1950 in

Tours Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...

– 1999 in Tours) was a French

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François Richard L'anarchisme de droite dans la littérature contemporaine 1988 p215 "... la "pleine vie à respiration belle", pour reprendre une expression extraite d'un poème autobusiaque de Gilles Cormery (...) d'assumer pleinement une existence véritable et atteindre, au bout du compte, cette vraie vie sempiternellement .." and

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Cormery painted circa 4000

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s and

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s as well as thousand drawings. Le Château de Tours, Tours Castle and Exhibition Museum in Tours, France, organized a tribute September - November 2012. Catalogues of his paintings and drawings are planned for publication in 2014.

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1950 births 1999 deaths 20th-century French poets French male poets 20th-century French male writers Writers from Tours, France Artists from Tours, France Painters from Centre-Val de Loire {{France-painter-20thC-stub