Mireille Havet

Mireille Havet (1898, Médan, Yvelines - 1932) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist.

Biography

She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier.^[1] She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923. She was friends with Jean Cocteau and Colette, who referred to her as "la petite poyétesse".^[2]

She was openly lesbian.^[2] ^[3]

Her diary, which she kept from 1913 to 1929, was only found again in 1995, and published in 2003.^[2]

On 29 January 2009, a public square was named after her in Paris.^[3]

References

^ Howard Pollack, John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life), University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 252 [1]
^ ^a ^b ^c La Quinzaine Littéraire n°972, 1 July 2008
^ ^a ^b Ursula Del Aguila, 'Paris: une place au nom de la poétesse lesbienne Mireille Havet', Têtu, 29 January 2009 [2]

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Name	Havet, Mireille
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Date of birth	1898
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Date of death	1932
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