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Jacques Darras

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Jacques Darras
Jacques Darras at a poetry festival in April 2013
Jacques Darras at a poetry festival in April 2013
Born1939
Ponthieu, France
OccupationPoet
NationalityFrench

Jacques Darras is a French poet and 2006 winner of the Grand Prix de Poésie from the Académie Française.[1][2]

Darras gave the 1989 Reith lecture series under the theme "Beyond the Tunnel of History" about Anglo-French relations 200 years after the French Revolution.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Jacques Darras". The Poetry Foundation.
  2. ^ "Jacques Darras - Literary Matters".
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Jacques Darras - Beyond The Tunnel of History". BBC.