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Notes of biography

Jacques Prévert was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1900. He had a happy childhood and joyful nature. His mother, from a young age, introduces him to the world of fiction and of dreams. The family of Jacques Prévert moves to Paris in 1907. His father tries to show him the world as it is, the misery and the prosperity. The child is marked by what he sees, with his happiness, from what he dreams, reads, assisting in showings of silent movies or the theatre!
His young brother, Pierre, becomes a director and Jacques writes screenplays and dialogues for the big screen. Jacques Prévert is quickly conscious of the world and how he sees it, painted with a sadness that will never fully leave him. Prévert becomes a fervent follower of playing hooky; he hates school and leaves for good in 1914. The young boy does not take classes but learns from others. The following year his brother dies of typhoid fever, at the age of 17. The death of his brother, the war that he hates, will always mark his life.
After his military service, his taste for literature does not expand; he meets others, discovers with interest ‘The Surrealist Revolution’ in 1924, and meets the surrealists. He composes in 1928, with his brother Pierre, the screenplay of reportage of Paris (Memories of Paris) that does not bring him any success. After having written a critic on André Breton, ‘Death of a Man’, he separates himself from the surrealist movement.
The year 1931 marks the real birth of Prévert the writer that we know his as. He writes texts for the future group ‘October’. Joseph Kosma sings the most well-known poems of Prévert. Various scandals break out because Prévert mocks the bourgeoisie, priests and the military. He writes screenplays and dialogues for numerous films (Droles de Drame’, ‘Les Visiteurs du Soir’, ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’, ‘Remorque’, etc.) and he writes texts for the revues.
Jacques Prévert produces his first collage in 1937. He publishes children books, then, with enormous success, publishes ‘Paroles’ (Words) in 1946. They come, later and among others, ‘La Pluie et le Beau Temps’ in 1955, ‘Fatras’ in 1966, etc, works that will without a doubt give him poetic and eternal recognition.
In 1962, with André Villiers and Pablo Picasso, his friend, Jacques Prévert publishes two works of photographs, paintings and collages.
Story teller, poet, playwright, lampoonist, screen writer, writer, artist, Jacques Prévert died in Omonville-la-Petite, France in 1977.

“I write to give pleasure to some people and to annoy others.” - Jacques Prévert

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