Yvette Frontenac

See also: Frontenac

Yvette Frontenac is a Poète and writer born with Frontenac in the Lot on January 17th 1925 and died in Frontenac on November 23rd 1998.

A style alerts, a truculent vocabulary, a poetic climate where are driven attaching characters, which it met with the length of its life and which it knew to make live again thanks to its extraordinary memory.

Its published work is composed of 7 Romance which has all a joint bottom of truth collected in the daily life of its soil. The quality first of its novels is the restitution in detail of the country life of the South-west of France, placing its work with the row of document: old habits and rites, agricultural work rates/rhythms by the seasons, values of a working class, places religion in the campaigns, relations of the family with the village… moderate painting of an area and of its heart, all that shows through and speaks to us.

All these novels have as a decoration the Batch, and in particular the village of Frontenac (between Figeac and Cajarc in the Lot). The places, the houses exist or existed. The family members of the author, the neighbors, are in turn clarified and take their places in each stories, like large a " Comedy humaine" country-woman. If the Fiction brings its note of imagination, the realism of descriptions, the habits, helps with the comprehension of particularisms of an area and its inhabitants, giving to the work of Yvette Frontenac value of rich person document on a country world now disappeared but always present in the memory and the family history of much of French.

It also composed of many poems of which some are put in music, some tales and news created for its grandchildren, his/her friends, or spontaneously according to the event.

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