page_title: Francis Jammes
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Jammes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le Poète Francis Jammes en 1917
context_page_description: Francis Jammes was a French poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life. His later poetry remained lyrical, but also included a strong religious element brought on by his conversion to Catholicism in 1905.
context_section_description: Francis Jammes ([ʒam]; 2 December 1868, Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées ; 1 November 1938, Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens). His later poetry remained lyrical, but also included a strong religious element brought on by his (re)conversion to Catholicism in 1905.
caption: Francis Jammes in 1917.
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