Alain-Fournier

Alain-Fournier was born in 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, a small town in central France whose rural landscapes would deeply inform his literary imagination. Raised in a family of schoolteachers, he attended school in Paris and spent years working on various literary projects while supporting himself as a journalist and literary secretary. His intense, unrequited love for a young woman named Yvonne de Quievrecourt, whom he glimpsed briefly on a Paris street in 1905, became the emotional foundation for his masterwork. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Lost Estate.