Roger Milliot

For the French cyclist, see Roger Milliot (cyclist).

Roger Milliot (1927, Le Creusot – 1968) was a French poet and painter. He served as a soldier in Indochina and as such had a pension. His health problems prevented him from becoming an ornamentalist. Like his idol René Char, he preferred provincial life to that of Paris and lived in Montauban, where there is now a museum of his paintings, mostly portraits of women. His depression and feelings of frustration led him to suicide by drowning in the Seine river. His poems were published posthumously.

Works

• QUI?, 1968
• QUI?, 1969 – definitive edition, illustrated and with a portrait

References

• Poètes maudits d'aujourd'hui: 1946-1970, Roger Milliot by Félix Castan, p. 124
• Ivan Slavík, Rozklenout srázné, Olomouc, 1993, p. 86