Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

30 x 30 x 1.6 cm.

12 x 12 x 0.6 inch.

Unique

 

Celebrities of Occitanie Collection

Over a hundred poems. A guitar. No set list the Académie française would have approved of - until they gave him their Grand Prix de Poésie anyway, in 1967.

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His mother never came to see him perform. Too rude, too godless.
The day she died, before walking on stage, he said: "This may be the first time she will hear me sing."

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Sète made him. France kept him.