Tancrède de Visan


Tancrède de Visan was the pen name of French writer Vincent Biétrix.

Life

After studying at the College des Minimes in Lyon, Vincent Biétrix obtained a literature degree at the Sorbonne in Paris. Some time leading up to 1911, he attended the lectures of Bergson at the College de France and met regularly with the Cubists at the poet Paul Fort's soirees at the fashionable. He related Bergson's notion of "accumulated successive images" to the writings of Maurice Maeterlinck circa 1907, and in 1910 advocated the technique in Vers et Prose. But he eventually waived aggregation and contributed to various newspapers.
He returned and settled in Lyon after World War I and from 1924 to 1939 was director of the magazine Notre carnet.

Works

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