Mireille Havet Explained

Mireille Havet (4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist.

She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier.^[1] She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923. She was friends with Jean Cocteau and Colette, who referred to her as "la petite poyétesse".^[2]

She was openly lesbian.^{[2] [3]}

Her diary, which she kept from 1913 to 1929, was only found again in 1995, and published in 2003.^[2]

On 29 January 2009, a public square was named after her in Paris.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Howard Pollack, John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life), University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 252 https://books.google.com/books?id=BvhZdjEf2TIC&pg=PA252&dq=%22mireille+havet%22&lr=
2. La Quinzaine Littéraire n°972, 1 July 2008
3. Ursula Del Aguila, 'Paris: une place au nom de la poétesse lesbienne Mireille Havet', Têtu, 29 January 2009 Web site: Archived copy . 2009-01-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090203180553/http://www.tetu.com/rubrique/infos/infos_detail.php?id_news=14071 . 2009-02-03 .