Emile Despax

Emile Despax (born with Dax, Moors, in 1881, died with Moussy-on-Aisne, the farm of Metz, in January 1915), was a young French poet died during the First World War.

Biography

Emile Despax, born with Dax, student with Bordeaux, was successively secretary of a Ministre for the Colonies, principal private secretary of the Gouverneur of Indo-China, then sub-prefect of Oloron. He dies in the combat in 1915, at 33 years. He was cousin and literary comrade of the writer Pierre Benoît.

Works

With the Threshold of the Moor , 1903.
the House of Glycines , poems, Mercure de France, Paris, 1905. Republished in 1960.
Publication posthumous in Poets of today , T3, Mercure de France, 1929.

Posthumous fame

Jean Balde, has Emile Despax , ED Plon, 1915.
“At the time of an investigation in 1924 to know the unknown chief of work, the Comtesse of Noailles chose the House of Glycines. ”
an avenue Emile Despax bears his name to Mées (Moors), as well as an elementary school. A street Emile Despax with Dax and Oloron-Holy-Marie.
the parish of Moussy-Verneuil pays especially homage to him each year on November 11th ().

Biography

Edgar Malfère, Anthology of the writers died in the war (1914 - 1918) , Amiens, years 1920.
Michel Suffran, On a lost generation (in particular on Jean Balde, Emile Despax, François Mauriac), 1966
R. Violaines, Emile Despax and Charles Lafargue, Emile Despax, poet of the evening in Bulletin of the Société of Bordered (Dax) n°330-331, 1968.
Ferin (Louis), Emile Despax, the sub-prefect with the fields , in Graines of History , n° March 5th, th and th 1999.

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