Jacques Dyssord

Jacques Dyssord , born with Oloron-Holy-Marie in 1880 and died with Villejuif in 1952, is a Poète and writer French.

Biography

January 4th, 1880 is born with Oloron-Holy-Marie (the Pyrenees Atlantiques), small town of the Béarn, Edouard Jacques Marie Joseph Moreau de Bellaing, second child of an aristocratic family and very nun. After studies with Toulouse at the Jésuites it obtains a license of right. His/her father hopes for a military career for his son but the Edouard young person prefers the writing. He decides to go at the end of his passion and leaves to settle with Paris in spite of the family opposition.

In 1909 it publishes under the name of Jacques Dyssord a collection of poems the Last Song of Intermezzo . The literary circles then notice this young night bird enthusiast of freedom, it is success. He attends Guillaume Apollinaire, Tristan Derème, Jules Supervielle, binds friendships with Francis Carco, André Billy, André Salmon, Laurent Tailhade, Jerome and Jean Tharaud and Paul-Jean Toulet.

" Poet fantaisiste" its work is described by Robert Sabatier of the Académie Goncourt in its Histoire of French Poetry - the poetry of the E century published in 1982 : " … These books are characterized by the sensitivity, the suffering veiled by the irony, imagination, the snigger despaired in front of the death which invades all its work. The poet is done of a relevant impertinence and goes from the haughty confrontation to the arlequinade rococo, quasi cubist. One is not always far away from the art of Apollinaire, Cocteau or Salmon… "

He is in turn poet, novelist, journalist, essay writer, author of plays. Untiring worker, his native Béarn, his bohemian life, his voyages abroad (Austria, Tunisia, Great Britain) as of the historical characters inspire it. He writes chronicles, news and criticisms literary, in many newspapers and re-examined, under the pseudonyms of Jacques Dyssord but also of Lazarille and Jean Cardesse.

He belongs to the Société of the men of letters (1929) and of the Académie of the Pyrenean Letters.

Its meeting with Marguerite Clot known as Margot will bring stability to him. It adopts the son of the young woman, William, who will die unfortunately in the camp of Mauthausen in 1944 at the 32 years age.

Victim of attacks concerning its participation in the Parisian newspapers during the war, Jacques Dyssord is withdrawn in 1945 of the literary life and dies on December 19th, 1952 with Villejuif.

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