PRÉVERT Jacques

Jacques PREVERT (born 4 February 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French poet, screenwriter, lyricist, and artist.

Author of collections of poems, including Words (1946), he became a popular poet thanks to his familiar language and his games on words. His poems have since been famous in the French-speaking world and massively learned in French schools.

He also wrote sketches and choruses spoken for theatre, songs, scripts and dialogues for cinema where he was one of the artisans of poetic realism, and he made numerous collages from the 1940s.