Background
Near Rouen, where his father was principal.
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Near Rouen, where his father was principal.
Born in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, Prévost was educated (from 1907 to 1911) at the primary school in Montivilliers. In 1918, he transferred to the lycée Henri-IV in Paris, where he studied under the philosopher Alain, to prepare for his entry to the École normale supérieure, in 1919.
In 1911, he moved to the prestidigious Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. They divorced in 1939. In June 1925, Adrienne Monnier launched a French language review, Le Navire d"Argent, and invited Prévost to be its literary editors
Le Navire d"Argent was international in its scope and published American works in translation as well as devoting an issue (March 1926) to American writers including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and East. East. Cummings.
lieutenant also first introduced Ernest Hemingway in translation to French audiences. Prévost was the first to commission a work from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, publishing The Aviator in the review"s eleventh issue.
After twelve issues, the project had to be abandoned as the effort and the cost was more than Monnier could bear. At the beginning of World World War II, he was mobilized and assigned to telephone control at Le Havre.
He was evacuated by sea to Casablanca and returned to France later.
He was a Resistance fighter under the name of Captaine Goderville (the village where his father was from). Biographer Jérôme Garcin writes that Prévost fought with "a gun in his hand and a knife in his pocket and, in his backpack, the unfinished manuscript of his Beaudelaire together with a portable typewriter". He was killed in a German ambush at the Pont Charvin, in Sassenage, on 1 August 1944.
The lycées (secondary schools) in Villard-de-Lans and Montivilliers are named in his honor.