Tristan Derème (Philippe Huc, known as Tristan) (other pseudonyms: Theodore Decalandre, Philippe Raubert) (Marmande, 1889 - Oloron-Holy-Marie, 1941) Poet French.

Founder of the whimsical School with Francis Carco and Robert of Vaissière. One owes him of many collections of often humorous poems.

Biographical elements

Of its true name Philippe Huc, it is “by chance” with Marmande on February 13rd, 1889 and followed a wandering schooling to the liking of the garrisons of his father, officer. His/her mother, Sophie Sandrin is resulting from an old inhabitant of Béarn family, related with famous the Pierre de Marca. She has with Oloron-Holy-Marie a house with the Saint-Pée district, where he will often remain, not of anchoring throughout its life and tallies frequent of its accounts and poems.

Since 1906, it binds friendship with Francis Carco and Robert of Vaissière: embryo from which whimsical École will be born the . From 1908 to 1921 he works in the tax department. In 1908 he collaborates in the reviews Hélios and Oliphant . He adopts the pseudonym of Tristan Derème.

In the years of pre-war period, the whimsical group gathers names like Paul-Jean Toulet, Jean-Marc Bernard, Jean Pellerin, Francis Carco, Leon Vérane, Robert of Vaissière, Rene Bizet, No5el Ruet, etc

In 1914, it is mobilized.

He becomes secretary of the deputy of the High Pyrenees Achilles-Armand Fould which he follows until the ministry for Agriculture (1930-1932). He is the friend of Louis Barthou, appointed of Oloron Sainte-Marie, president of the Council and several times Minister for the Third Republic. He corresponds with Francis James which as has to him fasteners in Béarn.

In 1922, he is elected member of the Pleiad, at the sides of Charles Maurras, Anna de Noailles, Paul Valéry.

In 1923 it meets Béatrix Dassane, the Clymène of its poems. From 1927 to 1929, he collaborates in the Figaro with a weekly heading.

In 1938 it receives the Grand Prix of Literature of the French Academy.

He lives in Paris but he often comes ressourcer in Oloron Sainte-Marie where he dies on October 24th, 1941; he is buried with the cemetery of Saint-Pée.

Works

Several collections of poetries of which:

• gilded Greenery : 1922.
• Poems of the doves : 1929.

Collections of articles and prose, strewn with poems of which Patachou, little boy on the daily life of a curious and mischievous child.

At the Whimsical ones, provincial school, all is soft music, veiled melancholy, discrete emotion, preoccupation with a spiritual freedom. The work of Tristan Derème can be summarized by these words: elegance, simplicity, love of nature.

Selected pieces

Looks at. The glycine yellowed on the door,

And here that the autumn with the crowned temples

Of null and void ivy and faded pinks

advances and of a heavy foot presses the dead sheets.

It goes and its coat of crimson in the twilight

is untied and mixed with the pastoral nuances.

Their destiny is more splendid still.

It is a flowered star bay-tree which decorates

Those whose paddle was only one prelude to death.

I will say for the instruction of the biographers

That your blouse had forty-two fasten,

That in your arms all the night I was included,

That it was good time, that I did not leave any more

Your room which a pot of heliotrope embaumait.

One day, the schoolboys leaning on their desks

While listening to vibrate the flies on the panes

Will find at the bottom of mildewed colleges

a page of me in their selected pieces.

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