Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres (

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) 23 September 1906; died at

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(

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, he trained as a teacher at the

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and then at the

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. He became friends with other normale poets including

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and

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, and taught in Parisian ''

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'' 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 1958Musée Maurice Fombeure
on the Bonneuil-Matours website. Retrieved 29 July 2020. and was elected to the

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Academy. In 1980, he won the Grand Prix for Poetry of the

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. A museum is dedicated to him in

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, where his father was mayor from 1935 to 1947. It contains originals of his works as well as numerous personal effects. The Dutch composer

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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

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(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) * ''

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, 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'' (

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, 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

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