Jean Follain

[6][7] Jean Follain was born in the small town of Canisy (province of la Manche), south of Saint-Lô, where he spent his childhood.

He attended a middle school (Collège, the title of a later prose work) where his father was professor of the Natural Sciences.

In 1919 he went to Leeds in a vain attempt to improve his English, and in 1921 he began studying law at Faculté de Caen.

Jean Follain received the Prix Blumenthal in 1941, awarded to poets who refused to collaborate with the Vichy Government.

[3] He died in Paris on 10 March 1971 when, returning from a banquet given by the Boat Touring Club, he was run over by a car shortly after midnight at the outlet of the tunnel of the Quai des Tuileries.