Journal 1887-1910 (riverrun editions)
''As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as poet, I prefer to see them neglected.''
Jules Renard was a French literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote part of northern Burgundy. He had the soul of a rustic bourgeois but the ambition of a metropolitan,...
''As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as poet, I prefer to see them neglected.''
Jules Renard was a French literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote part of northern Burgundy. He had the soul of a rustic bourgeois but the ambition of a metropolitan,...
