Pierre FonsPierre Fons (16 July 1880 in Toulouse – 23 April 1917 in Cambo-les-Bains) was a French poet, novelist and essayist.[1] BiographyBorn from a family of scholars, he obtained a law degree in Toulouse. He contributed to many magazines in the south of France. At 23, he published a volume of elegies, L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire,[2] foreworded by Émile Pouvillon, a work distinguished by the Académie française.[3] Maître es Jeux at the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse, he was part of a Toulouse school under the aegis of Marc Lafargue.[4] Author of several collections of poems but also of a series of essays published under the title Le réveil de Pallas,[5] Fons died during the First World War at age 36. A small part of his library[6] has been kept at the University of Perpignan since 2018. WorksEssays
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