Jean Paulhan was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member of the Académie française. He was born in Nîmes and died in Paris. Paulhan's father was the philosopher Frédéric Paulhan and his mother was Jeanne Thérond. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as a teacher in Madagascar, and he later translated Malagasy poems, or Hainteny, into French;Paulhan's translations attracted the interest of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Éluard.In 1925 Paulhan succeeded Jacques Rivière as editor of the NRF. In 1935 he launched a similar but more lux...
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