Francis Yard

Francis Yard , actually Athanase François Yard (born September 13, 1873 in Boissay , Département Seine-Maritime , † February 28, 1947 ) was a French writer .

Yard, whose parents ran a small farm, grew up in poverty. He wrote his first poems at the age of sixteen. An inheritance enabled him to move to Paris at the age of 23, where he became known as le poète des Chaumes and published his first volume of poetry, Dehors , in 1900 .

From 1904 until his retirement in 1931 Yard worked as a teacher, most recently at the École Leroy-Petit in Rouen. He also wrote poems influenced by symbolism . In the editions of the Almanac Normand from 1930 to 1932 he published short stories and short stories.

In addition to a collection of legends and stories from Normandy, Yard also published a linguistic work on the language of his home region. Yard died impoverished of pneumonia in February 1947. In Bouchy, the College Francis Yard , which opened in 1973, was named after him.

Works

• Dehors , poems, 1900
• Le déserteur , drama, 1904
• Mon village , 1905
• L'an de la terre , 1906
• Le fantôme , play, 1907
• A l'image de l'homme , 1910
• Dolphin , drama, 1920
• La chanson des cloches , Poem, 1921
• La messe du Saint Esprit , play, 1922
• Les goëlands , 1923
• La maison des bois , 1927
• La pipe , 1927
• Le roi Octobre , 1930
• Naïvetés sur Jeanne d'Arc , 1931
• Le Robec , 1933
• Legends et Histoires du beau pays de normandie , 1935
• Le patois de mon village
• Le parler normand entre Caux, Vexin et Bray , posth. 1998