Pascal Bonetti, born in Saint-Martin-Vésubie on May 5, 1884 and died in Paris on December 26, 1975, is a French poet and journalist.
Born near Nice, but of Corsican origin, he participated in Paris, in 1909, with his friend Roger Dévigne, in the monthly meetings (the Hurle-aux-Loups) of the Art Action group Les Loups, led by Anatole Belval-Delahaye. He also participates in the poetic groups of the Abbey, the Lions, and the Fantasists.

In 1910, at the age of 22, he published his first stories and poems, Les Orgueils, the publication of which was praised by Émile Verhaeren, Henri de Régnier, and René Ghil. He created his literary school, harmonism.

He collaborated with numerous newspapers: Le Figaro, Le Gil Blas, Le Matin (section of “Tales of the Thousand and One Mornings”, with Jean Giraudoux), La Petite République (director of literary services until 1914), as well as than most young magazines of the time.

In 1911, he participated in the organization in Mons of the first international congress of French Amitiés, an international association that he founded in 1909 with friends from Belgium and Italy. He served in the 14-18 war as an artillery officer. Twenty years later, he was the general delegate of the second international congress of French Friendships in Liège. In 1931, he represented France in California at the congress of the Institute of International Relations.

From 1952, he was president, then honorary president, of the Society of French Poets. It was he who was at the origin of the Jardin des Poètes, on the edge of the Auteuil greenhouse garden, in Paris. He succeeds Vincent Muselli as member of the Maison de Poésie.

The French Academy awarded him the French language prize in 1934 and all of his poetic work received the Academy prize in 1961.
Judgement

    “A solar work above all others, pure in form, exhilarating in thought, a work of maturity, yet so imbued with grace and, to put it bluntly, with immutable youth... sum, synthesis, harmony... which animates the highest spirituality and which exalts the two virtues, sometimes combined, sometimes contradictory, of Western genius. »

— Yves-Gérard Le Dantec, Revue des deux Mondes
Works

    Les Orgueils, Editions Sansot, Paris, 1910
    The Song of France, Paris, Éditions des Amitiés françaises, 1912
    The Walk in the Sun, Paris, R. Chiberre, 1923, Le-Fèvre-Deumier prize of the French Academy in 1928
    Les Ailes, Éditions Per Orbem, Paris, 1928
    Song of Exile, New York, 1942
    The Royal Suite, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1955 (Grand Prix des Poètes français, 1958)
    Anthology of contemporary French poets from 1866 to the present day, t. 4-5, selected pieces, accompanied by bio-bibliographic notices and numerous autographs, 2. vol., Paris, Delagrave, 1958-1959
    Choice of po