Joseph Calozet

Joseph Calozet was born in Awenne, in the Ardennes, on 19 December 1883, into a family of clog-makers. Doctor of classical philology from the University of Louvain in 1906, he taught for two years at the collège de Bouillon, then at the athénée royal de Namur, where he became prefect of studies in 1933 and from which he was dismissed in 1943, under the occupation. During the First World War, he had served in an intelligence network in his region. Coming from French verse, he turned to Walloon under the influence of the philologist Jean Haust, and in 1945 joined the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises. He died in 1968.

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• NovelLi Brak'nîJoseph Calozet · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature