Georges Pancol

Georges Pancol (June 7th 1888, Villars-in-Pons, in Charente - September 25th 1915, Champagne) is a Poète French.

Biography

After secondary studies with Bordeaux, Georges Pancol leaves his native area to remain 8 months with Nottingham in England, then at the end of 1910 to settle with Paris. He follows the courses of the School of Sciences Morals and Policies, then is registered for the entrance examination at the Colonial School. He will be received there first of his promotion, but without to have really wished it. Its spirit is elsewhere, and this since its adolescence, in daydreams, a permanent metaphysical concern… It reads works of Vigny, Leconte de Lisle, which it likes much.

It has the feeling of the time which passes, of the end of any thing, and it is haunted by death, the disappearance of each one: To think: " I was. But if I be, all would be similar! " To know that one will disappear and that one does not carry with oneself the suffering of anybody. To feel that one was unspecified, banal, useless, that one had small spites, and petty sizes of everyone, that one lived from day to day chichement, that one nourishes poor ideas, stupid concern, ridiculous hopes, that one was quite poor, deeply, primarily poor, and to guess, with the immense anguish which you étreint, which it is quite true that one will die and that nothing can be repaired any more nor to be remade. (September 7th, 1911)

Georges Pancol has a heart of poet, and it is very sensitive to nature, with the approach of spring, the wind in the trees, the starlight nights… Like he writes it on October 19th, 1911 with its promised in marriage, there is at his place the love of a certain beauty, certain colors, certain perfumes, and the desire, which always falls through, to create .

And in the poem Narcisse (1912):

In me reflected the beauty of the ground
And I had the splendor of the world at the bottom of the eyes.

Poet, it is it fully, even in the prose, which it is about his diary, or of the letters which he writes with been engaged English that he met in 1911, been engaged which will clarify his life…

Georges Pancol must leave in November 1913 for Hanoï, in Indo-China, where it is named raise-administrator. He is always with the Tonkin when the First World War bursts. He could have remained in Asia, far from the European battle fields, but he asks to return to France, because he refuses not to take part in the common sacrifice, not to be where all decides.

Its stay on the face will be in fact only of a few months. It is killed in Champagne on September 25th, 1915, at the time of an attack. It will be buried with the military cemetery of Virginy. Two days before its death, he wrote with its been engaged:

the cannonade thunders everywhere: time is superb and so soft.
I do not have any funeral presentiment; how could I it, by such a sun?
And yet?
Like the past is far and as the future is near!
Good bye, darling.

Its poetries, its newspaper, its letters with its been engaged were published for the first time, in 1923, prefaced by one of his/her friends, Paul Tuffrau, which he had known with the college of Bordeaux.

Works

Poems. Newspaper. Letters. (Foreword of Paul Tuffrau) (Sansot Editions, R. Chiberre, editor) (1923)
Republication in 1996: Diary; Letters with been engaged; Poems. (presentation by Michel Suffran) (Editions Opals).

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