Yves Salgues
Yves Salgues, was a French journalist and writer.Life
Born in Cazals, in the Lot, in turn reporter for Paris Match, editor of Jours de France and literary columnist in Madame Figaro, he is the author of a collection of poems, and also wrote artist biographies and novels, including an erotic tale entitled Miss Innocence. In 1947 he published under the pseudonym of François Sauvage Plus près de toi in the sentimental collection Mélusine, along with Antoine Blondin and Jacques Laurent.
A former drug addict, he testifies to his struggle in his autobiographical accounts L'Héroïne : une vie and Le Testament d'un esclave.
Salgues died in Boulogne-Billancourt at the age of 73.Oeuvre
Poetry
