Jean Calf

Jean Calf , known as Its Magnificience the Baron Jean Calf , (born the October 22nd 1877 - died the January 9th 1964), is a personality of the literary world and a Pataphysicien French.

Biography

Come from the province, arrived at Paris at the end of the XIXe century, Jean Calf, while living sparely, is made a place in the Parisian artistic mediums of the Belle Time. It founds in 1903 with André Salmon and Guillaume Apollinaire the Feast of Ésope , of which he is sub-editor, and within the framework of which he meets Alfred Jarry. He becomes a large friend of Apollinaire, who it affuble of the persistent titles of “Baron” and “secretary”, although he was neither one nor the other. Enough quickly, it attends literary all-Paris. He tells in 1963 his literary and artistic memories in the Memories of the Baron Mollet .

Redécouvert by the Collège of 'Pataphysique, which accommodates it on October 27th, 1951, it becomes Satrape on May 11th, 1953. May 10th, 1959, he is elected, according to a suggestion of Boris Vian, Vice-Curator by Raymond Queneau, in time that senior of the College and alone as of his members to have known Jarry. He exerts five years during his functions, until his death on January 9th, 1961. He restored the rogation as of his election. It is also under its magistère that the system under-commissionnel current of the College was organized. Its magistère is generally associated with the period ostentation of the College

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