The French writer Christian Bobin has died at the age of 71

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Christian Beaubet became world famous for his bestseller Le Très-Bas

French author and poet Christian Beaupin, who was best known for his bestseller “Le Très-Bas”, has died at the age of 71, the publishing house Gallimard announced today on its social media accounts.

The writer, who cared little for his fame, lived in a house in the woods where he devoted himself to writing. He regularly published short prose works. Some sold more than 100,000 copies, such as “Le Très-Bas” about St. Francis of Assisi in 1992. Others remained anecdotal.

This autumn, Beaupin published the novel “Le Muguet rouge” by the house of Gallimard, and an anthology of “selected works” in the Quarto collection, “Les Différentes Régions du ciel”.

Frédéric Begbende, a French journalist and critic, declared in 1995: “Bobin is, by far, the most famous writer of Cresot,” of his birthplace in Burgundy, in central-eastern France, which he never left.

“I was born in a steel cradle,” the author, the son of an industrial design professor, told AFP this fall, as Le Creuset housed the Schneider steelworks in the 19th century. However, in his house there was no novel about industry, social realism, class struggle, instead there was a pointillist art directed towards nature and the sky.

“I preferred to go towards what seems to ignore the passage of time: flowers, love in its first timidity, anticipation, the beauty of a face, silence, long duration… All these things that modern life little by little he started to take us away, to steal from us”, he emphasized.

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