Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898,

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– 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist. She wrote lyrics for songs composed by

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and intended for

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, 2001, p. 25

/ref> She wrote a novel, ''Carnaval'', published in 1923. She was friends with

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and

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, who referred to her as "la petite poyétesse".'' La Quinzaine Littéraire'' n°972, 1 July 2008 She was openly lesbian.Ursula Del Aguila, 'Paris: une place au nom de la poétesse lesbienne Mireille Havet',

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, 29 January 2009 Her diary, which she kept from 1913 to 1929, was only found again in 1995, and published in 2003. On 29 January 2009, a

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was named after her in

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