DERENNES (Charles) The Pilgrim Of Gascony + Manuscript + Letters

Son of Gustave Derennes (1858-1889), associate professor of history then academy inspector and Breton writer, born in Charente and originally from Mayenne, and of Marthe Cassan, daughter of a baker and Aquitaine grain merchant from Villeneuvois , he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot. In 1892, he entered the Talence high school, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, where he completed his secondary studies; there he met the Dacquois poet Émile Despax (1881-1915), and Marcel Gounouilhou (1882-1939), future director of the daily Little Gironde with which he will collaborate, with whom he will remain linked. A bachelor in 1899, destined for a career as a teacher by family tradition, he went to Paris to prepare for the entrance exam to the École Normale Supérieure in Henri-IV High School and to L.

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