Le Monde.fr: Sur les traces du deuxième roman qu’Alain-Fournier, l’auteur du « Grand Meaulnes », projetait d’écrire avant d’être tué à la guerre en 1914
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Alain-Fournier
Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.
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culture · French author and soldier (1886–1914) · writer · novelist · also Alain-Fournier, Henri Alain-Fournier
Born 3 October 1886 · Died 22 September 1914 · Q298394
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Linternaute.com: Alain-Fournier : biographie de l'écrivain, Le Grand Meaulnes
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Linternaute.com: Alain-Fournier : biographie de l'écrivain, Le Grand Meaulnes
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2020· 1 entry
L'Est républicain: Meuse | Patrimoine militaire (5/7) La Tranchée de Calonne et la mort d’Alain-Fournier
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: Alain-Fournier, The Great Gatsby and a party in Chiswick
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A limewood board 130 by 140 centimetres (51 by 55 in) inspired by Le Grand Meaulnes
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2013· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Alain-Fournier’s Twilight Eden that gave way to the trenches
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1975· 1 entry
L'Association des Amis de Jacques Rivière et d'Alain-Fournier (AJRAF, Association of the Friends of Jacques Rivière and of Alain-Fournier) was founded by Alain Rivière, the son of Jacques Rivière and nephew of Alain-Four
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1924· 1 entry
His correspondence with Jacques Rivière in 1926 and his letters to his family in 1930
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1914· 2 entries
Died 1914-09-22.
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Alain-Fournier started to work on a second novel, Colombe Blanchet, but this remained unfinished when he had to join the Army as a lieutenant that August
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1912· 1 entry
Quit his job to become the personal assistant of the politician Casimir Perrier
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1910· 1 entry
Started a two-year on-and-off relationship with Jeanne Bruneau, a country-born milliner who inspired him the character of Valentine in "Le Grand Meaulnes"
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1907· 2 entries
And he brought it up when he was introduced to Yvonne's younger sister
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When Jacques stayed with their family for a few weeks, they had soon fallen in love and they married in 1909
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-10-03.
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