Pierre Fons

Pierre Fons (16 July 1880 in Toulouse – 23 April 1917 in Cambo-les-Bains) was a French poet, novelist and essayist.

[1] Born from a family of scholars, he obtained a law degree in Toulouse.

At 23, he published a volume of elegies, L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire,[2] foreworded by Émile Pouvillon, a work distinguished by the Académie française.

[3] Maître es Jeux at the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse, he was part of a Toulouse school under the aegis of Marc Lafargue.

[4] Author of several collections of poems but also of a series of essays published under the title Le réveil de Pallas,[5] Fons died during the First World War at age 36.