'Le Grand Meaulnes' was finished in early 1913, and was first published in the Nouvelle Revue Française (from July to October 1913), and then as a book.
In 1912, he quit his job to become the personal assistant of the politician Casimir Perrier. There he met André Gide and Paul Claudel. Yvonne de Quiévrecourt would become Yvonne de Galais in his novel.Īlain-Fournier returned to Paris in 1910 and became a literary critic, writing for the Paris-Journal. They did not meet again until eight years later, when she was married with two children. And even if she had, she would not have been the same".
That night he told Rivière, "She did not come. 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-Four Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (1886 – 1914), a French author and soldier. In 1909, Rivière married Alain-Fournier's younger sister Isabelle.
Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher département, in central France, the son of a school teacher. He wrote a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which was adapted into two feature films and is considered a classic of French literature. Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (1886 – 1914), a French author and soldier.
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