Jehan Rictus

Jehan Rictus (September 21, 1867 – November 6, 1933) was a French poet. He was born Gabriel Randon in Boulogne-sur-Mer. In the 1900s, he legally changed his name to his mother's name Randon de Saint-Amand.

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Portrait of Jehan Rictus by Félix Vallotton

After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon took the pseudonym of Jehan Rictus. He found success in 1895 with poems that he interpreted in Parisian cabarets. These poems that Rictus interpreted, called Soliloques du Pauvre (Soliloquies of the Poor), were published in 1897. A few other volumes of verse followed, with Le Coeur populaire being published 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, and of a vast diary. The first five booklets were published in 2005.

Works
  • Les Soliloques du Pauvre (1897)
  • Doléances (1900)
  • Les Cantilènes du malheur (1902)
  • Les Soliloques du Pauvre (1903)
  • Fil de Fer (1906)
  • Le Coeur populaire (1914)
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