Portrait de René

Jacques-Emile Blanche - René Crevel (s.d., ca 1920)

« René Crevel n'avait pas tous les défauts, mais il avait toutes les qualités. Même la beauté.»

Paul Eluard

Looking for Rowley's poetry

In April 1770, Chatterton left for London, determined to make it on his own merits as a writer. But four months later, on August 24, 1770, unable to find any work, without money, and near starvation, he penned a farewell poem: "Have mercy, Heaven! when here I cease to live / And this last act of wretchedness forgive." He then poisoned himself with arsenic. He was only seventeen years old.
On n'est pas sérieux quand on a dix-sept ans...
 

Henry Wallis, La Mort de Chatterton, 1856