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Jean Cassou
Jean Cassou (9 July 1897 – 16 January 1986) was a French writer, art critic, poet, member of the French Resistance during World War II and the first Director of the Musée national d'Art moderne in Paris.
Biography.
Jean Cassou was born at Deusto, near Bilbao, (Spain). His father was French (with a Mexican mother) and his mother Milagros Ibañez Pacheco was from Andalucia (Spain).
His father, who had the prestigious degree "Ingénieur des Arts
, Les Ordres de Chevalerie, 1949, with Jean Camp, lithographs by Carlos Fontsere
Works Translations of Cassou into English.
- "33 Sonnets of the Resistance and other poems", Timothy Adès, Arc Publications, UK 2002
- "The Madness of Amadis and other poems", Timothy Adès, Agenda Editions, UK 2009
References.
- Biography of Jean Cassou on the site of the "Ordre de la Libération"
- Cassou, Jean, "Une vie pour la liberté", Paris,