Jacques Richepin

1880–1946 (age 66)

Biography

Jacques Richepin (1880-1946) composed poetry that blended lyric intimacy with civic awareness, giving voice to both the tenderness and tension of his era.

In the company of the winds around Île Tristan, those who visit his resting place may still sense the cadence of verse that sustained him.

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