Le Pont traversé

Le Pont traversé is a Paris bookshop founded in 1949 by the French writer and poet Marcel Béalu. It is described in reference sources simply as a "bookshop in Paris." Beyond its retail role, the shop became a small but notable literary publisher, issuing limited-edition poetry and prose titles. Among the works it published were Marcel Béalu's own collections, including Dix Poèmes pour cartes postales (1966), Yamira (1975), Poèmes, 1936-1960 (1976) and Poèmes, 1960-1980 (1981). The name thus stands for both a physical bookshop and an imprint associated with French poetry of the second half of the twentieth century. The business is privately held and remains active, with a website at leponttraverse.com.

Le Pont traversé was founded in Paris in 1949 by Marcel Béalu, a French writer and poet born in 1908. Béalu had already established a literary career, publishing his first collection in 1932 and later becoming associated with surrealism and the École de Rochefort. In 1955 he also co-founded the review Réalités secrètes with René Rougerie. The bookshop, whose name means "The Crossed Bridge," served as both a retail outlet and a publishing imprint. Under the Le Pont traversé imprint, several of Béalu's later poetry collections appeared: Dix Poèmes pour cartes postales (1966), Yamira (1975), Poèmes, 1936-1960 (1976) and Poèmes, 1960-1980 (1981). These publications place the shop within the network of small French literary presses that sustained poetry in the post-war decades. Marcel Béalu died in 1993, but the bookshop continues to operate, now with an online presence at leponttraverse.com.

• 1981

  Publishes Marcel Béalu's Poèmes, 1960-1980.

• 1976

  Publishes Marcel Béalu's Poèmes, 1936-1960.

• 1975

  Publishes Marcel Béalu's Yamira.

• 1966

  Publishes Marcel Béalu's Dix Poèmes pour cartes postales.

• 1949

  Marcel Béalu founds the bookshop Le Pont traversé in Paris.

Literary bookshop and small-press publisher specializing in poetry and belles-lettres.

• 1966

  Dix Poèmes pour cartes postales

• 1975

  Yamira

• 1976

  Poèmes, 1936-1960

• 1981

  Poèmes, 1960-1980

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2. 2Marcel Béalu — Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org
3. 3Le Pont traversé official websiteleponttraverse.com
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