Jehan Rictus

Poet, born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, N France. He first published poems under his own name while he was employed by the city of Paris, then two years later began to write in street slang, which he recited in the cabaret des Quat'z'Arts (1896) and at the Chat Noir (1897). These texts were collected together in Soliloques du Pauvre (1897) and Les Cantilènes du Malheur (1902). He published a largely autobiographical novel in 1906, Fils de Fer, and Le Coeur populaire in 1914.

Jehan Rictus (September 3, 1867 - November 6, 1933) was a French poet, born in Boulogne-sur-Mer.