Alain-Fournier (Oct. 3, 1886 – 1914, casualty of WW I) - French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), twice filmed and a classic of French literature…
“Weeks went by, then months. I am speaking of a far-away time - a vanished happiness. It fell to me to befriend, to console with whatever words I could find, one who had been the fairy, the princess, the mysterious love-dream of our adolescence - and it fell to me because my companion had fled. Of that period … what can I say? I’ve kept a single image of that time, and it is already fading: the image of a lovely face grown thin and of two eyes whose lids slowly droop as they glance at me, as if her gaze was unable to dwell on anything but an inner world.” — Alain-Fournier (Le Grand Meaulnes - variously translated as The Lost Estate, The Wanderer, or The Magnificent Meaulnes)
Photo of M. Fournier as a young man of 19 (1905)
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