![]() ![]() They did not meet again until eight years later, when she was married with two children. And even if she had, she would not have been the same". That night he told Rivière, "She did not come. The following year on the same day he waited for her at the same place, but she did not appear. The two spoke, but he did not manage to win her favours. On the first of June 1905, Ascension day, while he was taking a stroll along banks of the Seine he had met Yvonne Marie Elise Toussaint de Quiévrecourt, with whom he became deeply enamoured. ![]() Throughout this period he was mulling over what would become his celebrated novel, Le Grand Meaulnes. At this time he published some essays, poems and stories which were later collected and re-published under the name Miracles. He interrupted his studies in 1907 and from 1908 to 1909 he performed his military service. In 1909, Rivière married Alain-Fournier's younger sister Isabelle. At the Lycée Lakanal he met Jacques Rivière, and the two became close friends. He then studied at the merchant marine school in Brest. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, where he prepared for the entrance examination to the École Normale Supérieure, but without success. Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher département, in central France, the son of a school teacher. ![]()
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