Richepin, Jean
(1849–1926)
Richepin, JeanRichepin, JeanJean Richepin (B * MEDEA, ALGERIA, 1849 – D † PASSY (PARIS), 1926) French poet, a doctor's son, he rebelled against comfortable bourgeois life and the Parnassian poetry movement. He lived an adventurer's life, feeling he was the poet of the common man, including tramps and vagrants. His literary heroes were François Villon and Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849). His work was rejected by Mendès for inclusion in the Parnassian's review, so he founded his own revue, Les…