Andrée Chedid (1920-2011)

Death: 6th February 2011
Location: Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Photo taken by: Mu
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French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent. Her work questions human condition and what links the individual to the world.
The grave is inscribed with a quotation from Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette by Chrétien de Troyes: Le corps s'en va, le cœur séjourne / The body goes, the heart remains, which Andrée Chedid used as an epigraph to her last novel, Les quatre morts de Jean de Dieu / The Four Deaths of Jean de Dieu.

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