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Charles Vildrac (November 22, – June 25, ), born "Charles Messager", was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the..
Charles Vildrac
French playwright (1882–1971)
Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager",[1] was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose (1924).
Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse.
Vildrac, like other French antiwar writers, attempted to use poetry as a vehicle to change the actual course of history by placing the events of the war within.
In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.[1]
He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez.
The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.