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'''Charles Vildrac''' (November 22, 1882 &ndash; June 25, 1971), born "'''Charles Messager'''",<ref name=boy72>''1971 Britannica Book of the Year'' (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item</ref> was a French [[Civil libertarianism|libertarian]] playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, ''L'Île rose'' (1924).<br />
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Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published ''Le Verlibrisme'', a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.<ref name=boy72/><br />
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He was a member of the [[Abbaye de Créteil]] which he founded with [[Georges Duhamel (author)|Georges Duhamel]]. He died in [[Saint-Tropez]].<br />
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The [[Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac]] is named for him.<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Poèmes (1905)''<br />
* ''Images et mirages'' (1907), poems<br />
* ''Livre d'amour'' (1910), poems<br />
* ''Notes sur la technique poétique'' (1910), ''Notes on Poetic Technique'', with [[Georges Duhamel (author)|Georges Duhamel]]<br />
* ''Chants du désespéré (1914–20)'' (1920), ''Songs of a Desperate Man'', poems<br />
* ''Découverte'' ([[1912 en littérature|1912]]), ''[[récit]]'' novel<br />
* ''Chants du désespéré'' (1920), poems<br />
* ''Le Paquebot Tenacity'' (1920; lit. ''S.S. Tenacity''), theatre play<br />
* ''L'Indigent'' (1920), theatre play<br />
* ''Michel Auclair'' (1921)<br />
* ''L'Île rose'' (1924), children's novel, lit. ''The Pink Island'', translated as ''Rose Island''<br />
* ''Poèmes de l'Abbaye'' (1925), poems<br />
* ''Madame Béliard'' (1925), theatre play<br />
* ''Prolongement'' (1927), poems<br />
* ''D’un voyage au Japon'' (1927), travel story<br />
* ''La Brouille'' (1930), ''The Misunderstanding'', theatre play<br />
* ''La Colonie'' (1930), children's novel (sequel to ''L'Île rose'')<br />
* ''Les Lunettes du lion'' (1932), children's tale<br />
* ''La famille Moineau'' (1932), children's tale<br />
* ''Le Jardinier de Samos'' (1932), theatre play<br />
* ''Milot'' (1933), children's tale<br />
* ''Bridinette'' (1935), children's tale<br />
* ''Poucette'' (1936), theatre play<br />
* ''L'œuvre peinte d'[[Eugène Dabit]]'' (1937), monographie<br />
* ''Russie neuve'' (1938), travel story<br />
* ''L'Air du temps'' (1938), theatre play<br />
* ''Trois mois de prison'' (1942)<br />
* ''L'Honneur des poètes'' (1943), volume of poems published by the [[French Resistance]]; Vildrac's contribution appears under the pseudonym Robert Barade<br />
* ''Lazare'' (1945), in ''Chroniques de Minuit'', [[Les Éditions de Minuit]], p.&nbsp;15-39<br />
* ''Les Pères ennemis'' (1946), ''The Enemy Fathers'', theatre play<br />
* ''D'après l'écho'' (1949)<br />
* ''Amadou le Bouquillon'' (1951), children's tale<br />
* ''Les Jouets du Père Noël'' (1952), ''The Toys of Father Christmas''<br />
* ''Pages de journal'' (1968)<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
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* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. {{ISBN|0-19-866125-8}}.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.blackcatpoems.com/v/charles_vildrac.html Poems by Charles Vildrac]<br />
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