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Alain-Fournier

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Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.


— Alain-Fournier


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Most of the writing of Alain-Fournier was publiAlain-Fournierd posthumously: Miracles (a volume of poems and essays) in 1924 his correspondence with Jacques Rivière in 1926 and his letters to his family in 1930. Mais j'espère bien avant la fin de l'année avoir terminé Colombe Blanchet. On the first of June 1905 Ascension day while he was taking a stroll along banks of the Seine he had met Yvonne Marie Elise Toussaint de Quiévrecourt with whom he became deeply enamoured.

He was the author of a single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature. Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier (October 3 1886 – September 22 1914) a French author and soldier.

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