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This medal has been minted in 1974 to commemorate the French poet and writer, Jean ROUSSELOT, 1913 - 2004.
It is signed
by the prominent French medalist, Daniel du JANERAND.
This
medaille has been minted only in 100 pieces.
This one has the number 12 of 100 on the rim.
Jean Rousselot, born in Poitiers on 27 October 1913 and died
in Yvelines on 23 May 2004 (90
years), is a poet and writer French.
av.
The portrait of Jean Rousselot
rv.
The quotation of the poet
diameter
– 76 mm, (ca 3“)
weight
– 182.30 gr, (6.43 oz)
metal – silver plated, authentic patina
Biography
Youth in Poitiers
Orphan from a working class family, he
must satisfy short surveys and earn a living at the age of 15 years. His
stepfather made him
interrupt his studies. Jean Rousselot between as an auxiliary to the Prefecture
of Vienna. Rousselot also meet the poet Louis Parrot, then
Shopping in Poitiers, seven years his senior and who becomes his friend and
mentor.
In 1931, Rousselot studied law and
Latin. He became the editor mayor of Poitiers, then, after a contest and
passed, Secretary of the Police Commissioner. The experience he has of life of
the working and peasant condition, such as poverty and injustice, have largely
contributed to its political and social education and to forge his socialist
and humanist commitment, as written by Christophe Dauphin (in Jean
Rousselot, carrying fire , magazine without shoulders Men # 16, 2004).
Rousselot participates in the journal Youth
, founded in Bordeaux in 1932 by Jean Germain and Pierre Malacamp . With Marc Fernand , he
founded the magazine The Last Square , which will accommodate Joe Bousquet , who became
a friend, and also Michel Manoll , by whom
he will contact later with Jean Bouhier , René Guy Cadou or Lucien Becker . A new
test shoots to twenty years, with the disappearance of his grandparents Audin.
The same year, the poet is hospitalized in a sanatorium of Saint-Hilaire,
following repeated spitting blood. A year later, life takes over: he married
Yvonne Bafoux in August 1934 The couple had two daughters. Claude and
Anne-Marie. Rousselot published his first two collections of poems: Poems
(Collection of Youth) and to not die (The Slips Wisdom). Source: André Marissel , Jean
Rousselot , Seghers, 1960).
The poet and war
Jean Rousselot successfully passed in
1936, a contest to be Police Commissioner. He was appointed to Rosendaël near Dunkirk , and then
transferred to Vendome in 1938.
poet comes into contact with the Resistance and uses
his position to hide escaped prisoners, while preserving its best Jews.
(Source: André Marissel , Jean
Rousselot , Seghers, 1960).
In 1942, Jean Rousselot appointed to Orleans . He
continued his work as a poet-resistant: poems, pamphlets, false papers ... He
saves his brother, and then, in 1943, the poet of Monny Boully and his
wife Paulette (mother of Claude Lanzmann ),
arrested by the Gestapo . In February 1943, Jean Rousselot engages in the ranks
of Free France and
becomes Captain John in the network Cohors-Asturias . Meanwhile, the
poet had befriended Paul Eluard and met Max Jacob in 1942 in
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire . Rousselot
corresponded with the poet of the Central Laboratory for a year. A
strong friendship instituted immediately. On 24 February 1944, Max Jacob was
arrested by the Gestapo and died
March 5, 1944 at Drancy . Max
Jacob is one of the two great poets, who strongly marked and influenced and
friends of the School of Rochefort . There is
therefore Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy .
Jean Rousselot joined Rochefort-sur-Loire , in June 1940,
where the "truant" as nicknamed René Guy Cadou, which is founded in
1941, contributing among other journals or groups, survival of poetry free and
without indulgence Vichy and occupied. Rousselot is the group from the
beginning, along with René Guy Cadou and Jean Bouhier , which
will join Michel Manoll , Marcel Béalu , Luc Bérimont , Roger Toulouse and many
others. Providing a platform for flight poets and poetry, Rochefort has no
doctrine. Diversity of its members is its richness. All have in common the
horror of the ivory tower, contempt of Parisianism, brotherhood with the
elements and, of course, the rejection of fascism. Cadou, died of cancer at
thirty-one years in 1951, was itself the soul of the group, with its simple
lyricism and marveled that lonely and tormented. Rousselot never make every
effort to access the work of Cadou recognition. During this period, the poet
published: Man is in the middle of the world (Fontaine, 1940), Proceedings
(Booklet School Rochefort 1941), The Poet returned (Bread White, 1941) Repeat
the night ( Les Cahiers de l'École de Rochefort, 1943) Arguments
(Laffont, 1944), Blood of Heaven (Seghers, 1944). (Source: Christophe Dauphin , Jean
Rousselot, the poet who has not forgotten to be the book Centennial
Editions Rafael Surtis, 2013).
In August 1944, Rousselot participated
in the battles for the liberation of Orleans and was appointed Commissioner by
the central Resistance, is the
responsibility of five departments in the region. After the Liberation, he was
appointed to Paris as Chief
of Staff Deputy Director of National Security. He joined the National Committee
writers.
The poet at breast height
In 1946, the poet makes an important
decision. All crowned by its action as a poet and resistant (he was awarded the
medal of the Free French Forces, the title of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
and the Officer of the National Order of Merit and will be later appointed
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters), he resigned from the National
Security and decides to live by his pen. Jean Rousselot is a tireless advocate
for poetry, poets, freedom, and one of the biggest critics of his generation.
From 1946 to 1973, Jean Rousselot publishes thirty plates or volumes of poems, The
Attic (Jeanne Saintier, 1946), at the same the same (Rougerie,
1973), passing by, There is no exile ( Seghers, 1954) Aggregation
time (Seghers, 1957), from Maille (Seghers, 1961) or Out of Water
(Chambelland, 1968), while in 1974 seems The Livelihoods , poetic Work
1934 - 1974 (Seghers). On the back cover, Georges Mounin wrote:
"This man never asleep on the pillow literature. More success is
confirmed, more anxiety grew. It was a true concern, with absolutely nothing
pathological. "(Source: Christophe Dauphin , Jean
Rousselot, the disappearance of a man to be , reviewed here there è
2, 2005).
Rousselot also gives twenty pieces for
radio, as it translates or adapts many poets, Hungarian to French ( Gyula Illyés Ferenc
Szenta, Attila Jozsef , Madach Imre , Sándor Petőfi ); English to
French (Shakespeare, Blake, Poe ...), for the purposes of a book or anthology,
whose anthology of Hungarian poetry of the twelfth century to the present
day (Le Seuil, 1962 ), directed by his friend Ladislas Gara.
Twenty trials of high-vaulting on: Max Jacob , Oscar de Lubicz Milosz
Vladislas , Paul Verlaine , Tristan Corbiere , Pierre Reverdy , Edgar Allan Poe , Blaise Cendrars , Maurice
Fombeure , Attila Jozsef , Orlando Pelayo , William Blake , Jean Cassou , Agrippa d'Aubigné , Victor Hugo , Albert Ayguesparse ...
Six collections of stories and news, Balloons
(Sheets Ilot, 1938) to desperate Hesperides (Amiot-Lenganey, 1993);
eight books of history or fictionalized lives on Diane de Poitiers, Chopin, La
Fayette, Liszt, Genghis Khan, Wagner, Berlioz and Hugo.
Eleven novels, Prey and shadow
(Laffont, 1945), at Guesthouse (Belfond, 1983), through If you want
to see the stars (Julliard, 1948), A flower of blood (Albin Michel,
1955 ) or a train hides another (Albin Michel, 1964).
Citizen of the world, faithful to its
commitments and its origins, Rousselot quarrel in 1956 with Louis Aragon and the
National Committee writers: he denounced the imposture, Stalinist crimes and
publicly expresses its solidarity with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. he was
staying in Budapest, with Tristan Tzara and his
friend the great Hungarian poet Gyula Illyés few days before
the outbreak of the insurrection, 23 October 1956. (Source: Jean-Louis Depierris , Tradition and
insubordination in French poetry , Nancy University Press, 1992).
Meanwhile, he continues to juggle his
work as a poet, writer, critic. He became President of the Society of Men of Letters in 1971.
Creating a social security scheme for authors owes him much.
In 1975, Jean Rousselot involved in
the rebuilding of the Mallarmé Academy (dormant since
1951), with Paul Denys Bouloc , Michel Manoll , Marcel Béalu , Edmond Humeau and Guillevic Eugene , who became the
first president. The Académie Mallarmé in his eyes, a
defense and illustration of poetry.
Fourteen collections will come as a
result of the anthology of poems, The Livelihoods (pivotal work),
including, The Mysteries of Eleusis (Belfond, 1979), Where the rain
may still fall (Belfond, 1982), To do not forget to be (Belfond,
1990) Hookups conspiracies (South Poetry, 1990) The continuous
Spectacle (La Bartavelle, 1992) A Swash Solfatara (Rougerie, 1994)
or Word On (The Bartavelle, 1995) . A large selection of poems by Jean
Rousselot, appears in Rougerie in 1997 under the title, Selected Poems
1975-1996 , giving a representative selection of his poetry. (Source: Christophe Dauphin , Jean
Rousselot, life as a scream ripped into nothingness , magazine Le Cri
bone No. 33/34, 2001
Thus, the first side of the work
"marked" by the anthology The Livelihoods sings man in its
naked truth and honest that is, his hope, his confusion. The second side
symbolized Selected Poems , without sacrificing the core values and lyrical poet, is moving further towards a perpetual
and constant research on language, the metaphorical nature of the operation,
which is the basis of all writing . (Source: Christophe Dauphin , Jean
Rousselot, carrying fire , magazine without shoulders Men # 16, 2004).
Defining his poetic art, Rousselot
wrote: "The poem is an awareness of the powers of the poet on the time it
stopped, the feelings it makes their sublime nature, on the real, it pierces,
transmutes moves, to show the essence and sustainability. "Man, like the
poet, is made of words,
movements and commitments in his time, but with requirement:" Me seems
good (poetry) which brings me a new vision of the world, " force
"mine or help me to clarify. Yet should there be safety, beauty, novelty
if expression. All that is "manufactured" ruffles me, even if it is
pretty. No trinkets at home. "(Source: Christophe Dauphin , Jean
Rousselot, the poet who has not forgotten to be the book Centennial
Editions Rafael Surtis, 2013).
Jean Rousselot dies in its
Ninety-first year, Sunday, May 23, 2004. He was buried Friday, May 28, in the
cemetery of Pecq.Yvelines adoption, the Poitevin Jean Rousselot lived since
1955 in L'Etang-la-Ville . It was
inaugurated on 14 February 2002, at Guyancourt , the House of Poetry Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and located right
next to the library that bears his name. A street of Poitiers also bears
his name.