Bibliography
His main works are:
- Les Dimanches de Jean Dézert (1914), a novel inspired by his career as a civil servant (republished in 1994 by Quai Voltaire, with a preface by Dominique Joubert).
- L'Horizon chimérique, a posthumous poetry collection. Four of the poems, including the famous "Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés", were set to music by Gabriel Fauré in a song cycle of the same name.[1] More recently its poems were set by Julien Clerc in the album Si j'étais elle.
In 2008, Grasset Editions reissued these two works, followed by Contes, in the collection Les Cahiers rouges.
The novel Strangulation (2008) by Mathieu Larnaudie portrays a character mainly based on the life of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont.
