Jehan Rictus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jehan Rictus

French poet

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1867

Place of Birth: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1933

Profession: poet, playwright, journalist, novelist, diarist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jehan Rictus (September 21, 1867 – November 6, 1933) was a French poet, born Gabriel Randon in Boulogne-sur-Mer (in the 1900s, he legally changed his name to his mother's, Randon de Saint-Amand). After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon, having taken the pseudonym of Jehan Rictus (which he wrote 'Jehan-Rictus' at the end of his life), found success in 1895 with poems in popular language which he interpreted in Parisian cabarets.
These Soliloques du Pauvre (Soliloquies of the Poor) were published in 1897.
A few other volumes of verse followed, until Le Coeur populaire in 1914.
At the time of World War I, he stopped publishing.
He also forsook his anarchism for nationalist opinions.
He is also the author of an autobiographical novel, Fil de fer, in regular French, and of a vast diary, the 5 first booklets of which have been published in 2005.



Alternative names	Félix Édouard Vallotton; Félix Valloton; Felix Vallotton
Description	Swiss-French painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	28 December 1865	29 December 1925
Location of birth/death	Lausanne	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Work location	Paris, Honfleur Lausanne
Authority control	: Q123740 VIAF: 64012694 ISNI: 0000 0001 2280 9001 ULAN: 500017056 LCCN: n50014281 NLA: 35575428 WorldCat