Maurice Fombeure
Illustration — Maurice fombeure in 1964 Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres (Vienne) 23 September 1906; died in La Verrière (Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He became friends with other normale poets including Max Jacob and André Salmon, and taught in Parisian lycées including the Lycée Lavoisier, but remained always attached to his region of birth.
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Maurice Fombeure

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- Full name
- Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure.
- Born
- 1906. · Jardres.
- Died
- 1981. · La Verrière.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, playwright and teacher of literature.
- Fields
- theatre.
- Education
- École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of Arts and Letters, Grand Prix de Poésie, Prix d'Académie and Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Maurice fombeure in 1964 Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres (Vienne) 23 September 1906; died in La Verrière (Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He became friends with other normale poets including Max Jacob and André Salmon, and taught in Parisian lycées including the Lycée Lavoisier, but remained always attached to his region of birth.
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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 1958 and was elected to the Ronsard Academy. In 1980, he won the Grand Prix for Poetry of the Académie Française. A museum is dedicated to him in Bonneuil-Matours, where his father was mayor from 1935 to 1947. It contains originals of his works as well as numerous personal effects. The Dutch composer Marjo Tal set several of Fombeure's poems to music.
Maurice Fombeure studied at École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are theatre. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of Arts and Letters, Grand Prix de Poésie and Prix d'Académie.
• 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 Jean-Pierre Grenier (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) • Nicolas Eekman, 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 (Le Temps qu'il fait, 1993)
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1906
Maurice Fombeure was born on 23 September 1906.
1981
Maurice Fombeure died in 1981 at La Verrière.
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Jardres.
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• 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

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Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure, né le 23 septembre 1906 à Jardres (Vienne) et mort le 1er janvier 1981 à La Verrière (Yvelines), est un écrivain et poète français
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- 1.Primary school teachers were educated at départemental écoles normales, high school teachers and university professors at the écoles normales supérieures.
- 2.Il y a 40 ans, Maurice Fombeure disparaissait. La Nouvelle Republique. 4 February 2021.
- 3.Musée Maurice Fombeure on the Bonneuil-Matours website. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- 4.Il y a 40 ans, Maurice Fombeure disparaissait. La Nouvelle Republique. 4 February 2021.
- 5.Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers. Books & Music (USA), Inc. 1987. 0-9617485-2-4.
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