![]() ![]() ![]() The following year on the same day he waited for her at the same place, but she did not appear. The two spoke, but he did not manage to win her favours. On the first of June 1905, Ascension day, while Alain-Fournier was talking a stroll along banks of the Seine, he had met Yvonne de Quiévrecourt, with whom he became deeply enamoured. Throughout this period he was mulling over what would become his celebrated novel, Le Grand Meaulnes. At this time he published some essays, poems and stories which were later collected and re-published under the name Miracles. In 1909, Rivière married Alain-Fournier's younger sister Isabelle.Īlain-Fournier interrupted his studies in 1907 and from 1908 to 1909 he performed his military service. At the Lycée Lakanal he met Jacques Rivière, and the two became close friends. He then studied at the merchant marine school in Brest. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, where he prepared for the entrance examination to the École Normale Supérieure, but without success. ![]() He wrote a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which was adapted into two feature films and is considered a classic of French literature.Īlain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher département, in central France, the son of a school teacher. Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (1886 – 1914), a French author and soldier. ![]()
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