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Jean Follain was born on 29 August, 1903 in France, is a Jean Follain was writer, poet. Discover Jean Follain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Born 29 August, 1903
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Date of death 1971
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Nationality France

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1903

Jean Follain (29 August 1903 – 10 March 1971) was a French writer, poet and corporate lawyer.

In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group.

Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy.

He was a contributor to many journals, such as La Nouvelle Revue française, Commerce, Europe, Le Journal des Poètes and Les Cahiers des Saisons.

1919

In 1919 he went to Leeds in a vain attempt to improve his English, and in 1921 he began studying law at Faculté de Caen.

For health reasons he was exempted from military service.

1927

In 1927 he passed his bar exams in Paris and started attending the meetings of the group "Sagesse" ("Wisdom") where he made the acquaintance of André Salmon, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Mac Orlan and Max Jacob.

1933

In 1933 he published his first collection with Eugène Guillevic and Pierre Albert-Birot.

1934

In 1934 he married painter Madeleine Dinès, a daughter of the Nabi artist Maurice Denis.

1939

In 1939 he received the Mallarmé Prize.

1941

Jean Follain received the Prix Blumenthal in 1941, awarded to poets who refused to collaborate with the Vichy Government.

1949

In 1949 he became a member of the Board of the "Pen Club".

1951

In 1951 he gave up his career as a business lawyer and was appointed to the post of judge (magistrate) of the High Court in Charleville.

1957

In 1957, he travelled to Thailand and Japan, and in 1958 he received the International Award of Capri.

1960

In 1960 he travelled to Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and in 1966 to the United States.

1961

He resigned from the bench in 1961, to participate in the cultural Decades of Cerisy-la-Salle, near Canisy.

1967

He also visited Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal in 1967.

1970

In 1970, he was awarded the Grand Prize of Poetry from L'Académie française for his life's work.

A small part of his archives is conserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô in France.

Prix littéraire Jean Follain de la Ville de Saint Lô is a literary award honouring his name and contributions to French literature.

He studied law in Paris and became a judge.

In 1970 he received the grand prize for poetry from L'Académie Française.

1971

He died in 1971 in a car accident.

Jean Follain was born in the small town of Canisy (province of la Manche), south of Saint-Lô, where he spent his childhood.

He attended a middle school (Collège, the title of a later prose work) where his father was professor of the Natural Sciences.

He died in Paris on 10 March 1971 when, returning from a banquet given by the Boat Touring Club, he was run over by a car shortly after midnight at the outlet of the tunnel of the Quai des Tuileries.

2016

He was buried on the 16th of March in Canisy.

The "Reading Association at Saint-Lô" and the city of Saint-Lô, with the assistance of the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs of the Lower Normandy Regional Centre of Letters and the General Council of France, organise a biannual literary prize in his name: Jean Follain Prize in the city of Saint-Lô.