Georges Chennevière

Georges Chennevière studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he met Jules Romains with whom he formed a community of artists called the Abbaye de Créteil beginning in 1905.

A critic and contributor to magazines such as L'Effort Libre, Les Hommes du Jour, he also participated in the creation of the Clarté movement in 1919 in which he became its secretary.

Mais il ne semble jamais avoir pu croire à une survie personnelle et s'il s'est refusé à ne voir que la « beauté qui (me) cache, en dansant, les abîmes », il a découvert la réalité essentielle dans l'amour, qui flotte au-dessus de tout, avec tendresse « comme l'exhalaison des rivières, le soir ».

»[2](translated: George Chennevière yearned for what triumphs from the relentless passage of time, and he expressed that in poems, in verse, or in prose with suppressed emotion.

But he never seemed able to believe in personal survival, and if he refused to see anything save the "beauty that hides me, dancing, in the abyss," he discovered the essential reality in love, which floats above all else, with tenderness "like the exhalation of rivers at night."