Jacques Prévert is read about 595 times a day, in 66 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 20 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 395 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He made French poetry feel like something you could say out loud without flinching. Prévert's verses stayed plain, direct, often funny - school anthologies loved them, and so did anyone who'd been told poetry had to be difficult.
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Jacques Prévert en 1961 dans le film Mon frère Jacques par Pierre Prévert
38. Adolf Hoffmeister, Jacques Prévert, 1960
A book signed by Jacques Prévert with his sketch
Aigle Noir - Jacques Prévert
Alexandre Trauner en 1961 avec J. et P. Prevert
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En 1961
Jacques et Pierre Prévert dans le film Mon frère Jacques par Pierre PrévertIn their own words 3
, Our father who art in heaven / Stay there / And we will stay here on earth / Which is sometimes so pretty
An orange on the table / Your robe on the carpet / And you in my bed / Sweet present of the present / Coolness of the night / Warmth of my life.
It's terrible / the faint sound of a hard boiled egg firmly cracked on a tin counter / it's terrible this faint sound / when it stirs the memory of a starving man
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About this person
Born in February 1900, Prévert spent decades moving between film sets and the page. Through the 1930s and '40s he wrote screenplays that helped define poetic realism, the kind of French cinema where longing and fog did as much work as the actors - Les Enfants du Paradis in 1945 became the peak of that. He didn't publish his first book until 1946, but once those poems appeared they spread fast: simple syntax, everyday images, a rhythm that stuck. By the time he died in April 1977, his lines had become the ones French students memorized first.
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