BIOGRAPHY :
Jacques Prévert was born on 4 February 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in Hauts-de-Seine (France) in a bourgeois family. He left school at fifteen, as he prefers to work and bored. He did his military service in Istanbul where he met Marcel Duhamel. In 1925, he participated in the surrealist movement with, among others Marcel Duhamel, Raymond Queneau and André Breton. But its independence is leaving the group in 1930. In 1932, he participated in the Olympics in Moscow theater and from 1932 he worked for the cinema by becoming dialogue writer and screenwriter. He writes, inter alia, "Quai Des Brumes", "Funny Drama" or "Les Visiteurs du Soir". In parallel with this work, some of his poems are set to music by Joseph Kosma (over the years it will be interpreted by many artists such as Yves Montand, Juliette Greco and Les Frères Jacques).

The year 1946 is a big year for Jacques Prévert, Michèle daughter born of her union with Janine Tricotet (whom he married in 1947) and his first collection of poetry ( "Words") is published. This is the first of many. Juggler of words, Jacques Prévert uses all the tricks of the French language to write his texts: puns, word, saying, alliteration, etc.. are his toys. He delivers some of the most beautiful poems of the French language. With his death on 11 April 1977 as a result of cancer of the lungs, France loses one of its geniuses. In honor of this great poet, dozens of schools, streets, plazas received its name.