Henri alain fournier biography

French author and soldier

This article is about a classic French author. For the computer graphics researcher, see Alain Fournier.

Henri-Alban Fournier (French pronunciation:[alɛ̃fuʁnje]; 3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914),^[1] known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier (French:[alɛ̃fuʁnje]), was a French author and soldier.

He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature.

Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier.

Alain-Fournier was a French writer whose only completed novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (; The Wanderer, or The Lost Domain), is a modern classic.

Henri-Alban Fournier known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier was a French author and soldier.

The son of elementary schoolteachers, in close relationship to Charles Péguy (), friend and brother-in-law to Jacques Rivière (

Henri-Alban Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher, on 3 October His father, a schoolteacher, was appointed to the primary school in.

The book is based partly on his childhood.^[2]

Biography

Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cherdépartement, in central France, the son of school teachers.

Everyone who knew him called him "Henri", his first name or "Fournier", his last name, as "Alain-Fournier" was merely a nom-de-plume. He had a younger sister, Isabelle, to whom he was very close. She was one of his first readers, his confidante and most constant friend and support-system