Pierre Fons

Pierre Fons was a French poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography

Born from a family of scholars, he obtained a law degree in Toulouse. He contributed to many magazines in the south of France. At 23, he published a volume of elegies, L'Heure amoureuse et funéraire, foreworded by Émile Pouvillon, a work distinguished by the Académie française. Maître es Jeux at the Consistori [del Gay Saber|Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse], he was part of a Toulouse school under the aegis of Marc Lafargue. Author of several collections of poems but also of a series of essays published under the title Le réveil de Pallas, Fons died during the First World War at age 36.
A small part of his library has been kept at the University of Perpignan since 2018.