Prévert

/ prevɛr /

noun

1. PrévertJacques19001977MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: satiristFILMS AND TV: writer Jacques (ʒak). 1900–77, Parisian poet, satirist, and writer of film scripts, noted esp for his song poems. He was a member of the surrealist group from 1925 to 1929

Example Sentences

French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert convinced her to also change her surname to Aimée , meaning "loved".

From BBC

“Paroles” by Jacques Prévert I live partly in France, and I speak quite good French now, but I didn’t when I first arrived.

From New York Times

Prévert is amazing because, as a writer, he has immense profundity, but his language is really, really simple.

From New York Times

Or poems by Jacques Prévert, when night falls and you walk through the streets of Montmartre.

From New York Times

A wistfully skillful stroll through the babbling brook of Jobim’s “The Waters of March” trickles into the cruelly gentle dusk of Joseph Kosma’s 1945 “Autumn Leaves” — Costanzo and Bond carefully interweaving Jacques Prévert’s French and Johnny Mercer’s English lyrics.

From Washington Post