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Founded in 1941 by the poet Jean Bouhier, the School of Rochefort constitutes after the Surréalisme one of the main movements of the French poetry of the 20th century.

Positioning of the school of Rochefort

From the start, Jean Bouhier wrote a theoretical text entitled poetic Position of the school of Rochefort , but the term of school appears a little disproportionate, the proclamation not fixing strict rules, simply an orientation on the role of poetry. The poets of Rochefort, if they had sometimes some communities of sights, showed very different sensitivities however and set up a group of friends more. As Rene Guy Cadou said it so well, Rochefort was much more a playground than one true school.

At its beginnings, the school was constituted around a friendly group of young poets originating in the provinces of the West (Rene Guy Cadou, first with being published in the Cahiers of Rochefort , and Michel Manoll formed the hard core of it). Then it opened gradually with other authors come from the various areas of France. During a score of years, of 1941 to 1961, this group of poets became most important by the number and the variety of its authors.

The School of Rochefort was by no means new a " art poétique". Created in 1941, full German occupation, this movement, in reaction to the " poetry nationale" and traditional preached by the Vichy government, fitted initially in a step of individual freedom of expression, of humanism close to nature. Exceeding the controversies on the Surrealism, Rene Guy Cadou spoke about " surromantisme" to qualify its poetry. Then in the Fifties, the movement intended to protest against excesses of a poetry engaged around the poets of the resistance, encouraged by Louis Aragon. As wrote it Jean Bouhier, the poets of Rochefort wanted to say their poems to the face of the world, to mix them with the rates/rhythms with nature, the noise of the trees, of water, to mix them with the life . The movement, which had been somewhat blown at the end of the Forties, took again strength after the death of Rene Guy Cadou in 1951, while moving towards the capital where the poets met each Wednesday at the restaurant of the Cupola . The withdrawal of Jean Bouhier with beginning of the year 60 rang the knell of the " Friends of Rochefort" , but the spirit of the school remained, being found in 1964 in the proclamation " Poetry to live - Manifest of the man ordinaire" of Breton Jean and Serge Brindeau, in several editors: Chambelland , Rougerie … or in the review Poetry 1 of Breton Jean which kept during several years the strongest pulling of the poetic reviews.

Poets of the school of Rochefort

149 titles, under the feather of about thirty poets, were published under the initials “Rochefort” in various collections. The following authors, with a more or less important implication, and for whole or part of their work, were representatives with whole share or related of the school of Rochefort (nonexhaustive list):

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