Saint john perse biography

1887 : Born in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) as Marie René Auguste Alexis Leger, son of Amédée Leger, lawyer, and Françoise Renée Dormoy, descendant of a family of planters.

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Perse studied law at the University of Bordeaux and published his first collection of poetry in In he joined the French diplomatic service and spent.

Saint-John Perse () is the author of an exceptional body of poetry for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in

The young Alexis Leger and his family spend their time between two houses, “La Joséphine” near the town of Basse-Terre, and “Bois-Debout” near Capesterre.

1899 : Mainly because of the deteriorating political, economic and social situation, in Guadeloupe, Amédée Leger decides to take his family in France .

The Leger family (Alexis, his three sisters and his paternal grandmother, Augusta) movesd to Pau. Alexis enters high school.

1902 : Meeting the poet Francis Jammes, the “swan of Orthez”. They share the same nostalgia for Guadeloupe (Jammes’s father was born in Guadeloupe, and his grandfather was buried there) and the same commitment to the poetry of Virgil’s Georgics.

Alexis Leger has read his first manuscripts. With Jammes, he meets Gabriel Frizeau,