Jean Follain
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Jean Follain, a French writer, poet, and corporate counsel, died on August 29th, 1903 – March 10, 1971.
He was a founding member of the "Sagesse" group in the early stages of his career.
Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy.
He was a contributing author to several journals, including La Nouvelle Revue française, Commerce, Europe, Le Journal des Poètes, and Les Cahiers des Saisons.
He was awarded the Grand Prize of Poetry from L'Académie française in 1970 for his lifetime's work.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô in France has a small part of his archives on loan.
Jean Follain de la Ville de Saint Lô, a French writer, has been honoured for his name and contributions to French literature.
He studied law in Paris and became a judge.
He died in 1971 in a car accident.
Life
Jean Follain was born in Canisy (province of la Manche), south of Saint-Lô, where he spent his youth. He attended a middle school (Collège, the name of a later prose career), where his father was professor of the Natural Sciences. He went to Leeds in 1919 in a vain effort to develop his English, and in 1921 he began studying law at Faculté de Caen. He was refused military service for health reasons.
He completed his bar exams in Paris in 1927 and started attending the meetings of "Sagesse" ("Wisdom"), where he met André Salmon, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Mac Orlan, and Max Jacob, who became friends with him. He launched his first collection with Eugène Guillevic and Pierre Albert-Birot in 1933. Madeleine Dinès, the daughter of Nabi artist Maurice Denis, married him in 1934. He was awarded the Mallarmé Prize in 1939. In 1941, Jean Follain was named Prix Blumenthal, an award given to poets who refused to collaborate with the Vichy Government.
He left his career as a business advocate and was named to the position of judge (magistrate) of the High Court in Charleville in 1951. He joined the "Pen Club" board in 1949. In 1957, he went to Thailand and Japan, and in 1958, he received the International Award of Capri. In 1960, he travelled to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia, then on to the United States in 1966. In 1967, he also visited Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. He resigned from the bench in 1961 to participate in Cerisy-la-Salle's cultural Decades, near Canisy. He received the grand prix for poetry from L'Académie Française in 1970. He died in Paris on March 10th, 1971, after returning from a banquet hosted by the Boat Touring Club, he was run over by a car just after midnight at the Quai des Tuileries tunnel. He was buried in Canisy on the 16th of March.
The "Reading Association at Saint-Lô" and the city of Saint-Lô, with the support of the Regional Director of Cultural Affairs of the Lower Normandy Regional Centre of Letters and the General Council of France, organise a biannual literary award named after Jean Follain in the city of Saint-Lô.
Awards
- Mallarmé Prize (1939)
- International Prize of Capri (1958)
- Grand Prize of Poetry (L'Académie française 1970)
- Prix Blumenthal (1941)
