About Marie-Claire Bancquart
Marie-Claire Bancquart is a French poet born 1932, in Aubin (Aveyron). She is married to composer Alain Bancquart and she is professor of Literature, University of Paris-4 (Sorbonne). Director of the Sorbonne's Centre for French Poetry, 1945-1970. She has published essays on the Paris of the Surrealists (Seghers); fin de siecle Paris (La Difference); critical edition of Maupassant and has edited Anatole France's work for the Pleiade edition (Gallimard). Her Awards include the Prix Sainte-Beuve (for criticism); Prix de l'essai critique de la ville de Paris (for critical essays) and the Grand Prix de critique de l' Academie française (for criticism).Browse all poems and texts published on Marie-Claire Bancquart
