Jacques Prévert

Jacques André Marie Prévert (Known as "Jacques Prévert")

Poet, Screenwriter, Author of Paroles, Screenwriter of Children of Paradise and Autumn Leaves

Born Feb 04, 1900

Neuilly-sur-Seine (near Paris), France

Passed Away Apr 11, 1977 Omonville-la-Petite (Manche, Cotentin), France

Lifespan 77 years old

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"C'est une chanson qui nous ressemble / Toi tu m'aimais et je t'aimais / Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment / Tout doucement sans faire de bruit (Les Feuilles mortes)."

Archival Overview

Beloved French popular poet and screenwriter whose 1946 collection Paroles sold millions of copies, who wrote the immortal lyrics to Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles mortes), and penned the screenplay for Children of Paradise.

Biographical Record

Growing up in Paris and participating in the early Surrealist group, Prévert broke away to create a direct, conversational street poetry accessible to ordinary workers and schoolchildren, combining gentle tenderness with ferocious anti-militarist satire.

His partnership with director Marcel Carné produced the crowning glories of French poetic realism cinema: Quai des brumes (1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and the monumental Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945), voted the greatest French film of the century. His song Les Feuilles mortes, set to music by Joseph Kosma, conquered the world.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Omonville-la-Petite Cemetery (Alongside his wife Janine and friend Alexandre Trauner)
Omonville-la-Petite (Manche), France

                         GPS: 49.7028, -1.8861                    

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