Hervé Bazin

Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin was born in Angers on 17 April 1911, into a Catholic family of the upper bourgeoisie; he was the great-nephew of the novelist René Bazin. His adolescence was marked by a violent conflict with an authoritarian mother, and he broke with his family at the age of twenty. For a long time he lived by odd jobs while writing poems, which won him the Prix Apollinaire in 1947. Elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1958, he presided over it from 1973. He died in Angers on 17 February 1996.

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