Mireille Havet

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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

  1. ↑ Howard Pollack, John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life), University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 252
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 La Quinzaine Littéraire n°972, 1 July 2008
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ursula Del Aguila, 'Paris: une place au nom de la poétesse lesbienne Mireille Havet', Têtu, 29 January 2009
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