Jehan Rictus

Jehan Rictus (21 September 1867 – 6 November 1933) was a French poet.

In the 1900s, he legally changed his name to his mother's name Randon de Saint-Amand.

After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon took the pseudonym of Jehan Rictus.

These poems that Rictus interpreted, called Soliloques du Pauvre (Soliloquies of the Poor), were published in 1897.

He is also the author of an autobiographical novel, Fil de fer, and of a vast diary.