Alain fournier biography

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Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier.

Alain-fournier the lost estate

Alain-Fournier was born Henri Alban Fournier in in Chapelle d'Angillon.

Reported missing in action in September , Alain-Fournier is not officially considered a war writer because of his early death.

Alain-fournier the lost estate.

Le Grand Meaulnes

1913 novel by Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes (French:[ləɡʁɑ̃moln]) is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I.

The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical, especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, for whom he had a doomed infatuation in Paris. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his friendship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as the latter searches for his lost love.

Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.^[1]

Title

The title is French for "The Great Meaulnes".

The difficulties in translating the French grand (meaning big, tall, great, etc.) and le domaine perdu ("lost estate/domain/demesne") have led to a variety of English titles, including The Wanderer, The Lost Domain,