Andrée "Caprine" (née Gobron) Carême
Caprine Carême, the widow of the poet Maurice Carême, died Thursday, 8 February 1990, at the hospital, Az Damiaan, in Ostend. She was 91 years old.
Born Andrée Gobron, she was for more than half a century the wife, the muse and the interpreter of the poet, who died in 1978. It was with him that she notably gave a memorable recital in Moscow in front of several hundred students sitting on the ground, and met prisoners in the prison of Nivelles where everything was allowed except for texts about freedom.
The Victor Rossel prize was awarded in 1948 to Maurice Carême for the collection he had dedicated to his wife, Contes pour Caprine. Caprine Lent lived until the end of her life at the "Maison Blanche" in Anderlecht, now Fondation Maurice Carême. She was buried alongside her poet husband, in the Cimetière Communal de Wavre.
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"Who is Caprine? At first, I gave this name to my wife because of the vivacity and spontaneity of her actions, reflections and even reflexes. Capra - in Latin - means goat - hence this name. The sketch of the "Illustrations" is essentially his portrait. Later, this name of Caprine evolved and quickly became - a physical image that it was - a mental image. This mental image can not be used to express all my personality - since I had known other women - and that, moreover, I constantly used my memories - especially those that related to you - this mental image precise expands considerably and ends up meaning the ideal woman, the one that every man carries in the depths of himself. And now Caprine is for me only a symbol of love. It is a word that, once emptied of its physical content, has been stuffed with all my desires, all my fantasies, all the ghosts of my imagination. You are now part of this Caprine which is no more than a fiction of poet. You must have suffered - as everyone else - from this duality, this antagonism that exists between dream and reality - between material life and the life we imagine. This is what makes both the soft power and the deep melancholy of memories, the splendor of dreams of the future, the divinity of hope. (...)
~ letter from Maurice Carême addressed to the poet, Julia Tulkens, 15 February 1929
Caprine Carême, the widow of the poet Maurice Carême, died Thursday, 8 February 1990, at the hospital, Az Damiaan, in Ostend. She was 91 years old.
Born Andrée Gobron, she was for more than half a century the wife, the muse and the interpreter of the poet, who died in 1978. It was with him that she notably gave a memorable recital in Moscow in front of several hundred students sitting on the ground, and met prisoners in the prison of Nivelles where everything was allowed except for texts about freedom.
The Victor Rossel prize was awarded in 1948 to Maurice Carême for the collection he had dedicated to his wife, Contes pour Caprine. Caprine Lent lived until the end of her life at the "Maison Blanche" in Anderlecht, now Fondation Maurice Carême. She was buried alongside her poet husband, in the Cimetière Communal de Wavre.
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"Who is Caprine? At first, I gave this name to my wife because of the vivacity and spontaneity of her actions, reflections and even reflexes. Capra - in Latin - means goat - hence this name. The sketch of the "Illustrations" is essentially his portrait. Later, this name of Caprine evolved and quickly became - a physical image that it was - a mental image. This mental image can not be used to express all my personality - since I had known other women - and that, moreover, I constantly used my memories - especially those that related to you - this mental image precise expands considerably and ends up meaning the ideal woman, the one that every man carries in the depths of himself. And now Caprine is for me only a symbol of love. It is a word that, once emptied of its physical content, has been stuffed with all my desires, all my fantasies, all the ghosts of my imagination. You are now part of this Caprine which is no more than a fiction of poet. You must have suffered - as everyone else - from this duality, this antagonism that exists between dream and reality - between material life and the life we imagine. This is what makes both the soft power and the deep melancholy of memories, the splendor of dreams of the future, the divinity of hope. (...)
~ letter from Maurice Carême addressed to the poet, Julia Tulkens, 15 February 1929
Andrée "Caprine" (née Gobron) Carême
Caprine Carême, the widow of the poet Maurice Carême, died Thursday, 8 February 1990, at the hospital, Az Damiaan, in Ostend. She was 91 years old.
Born Andrée Gobron, she was for more than half a century the wife, the muse and the interpreter of the poet, who died in 1978. It was with him that she notably gave a memorable recital in Moscow in front of several hundred students sitting on the ground, and met prisoners in the prison of Nivelles where everything was allowed except for texts about freedom.
The Victor Rossel prize was awarded in 1948 to Maurice Carême for the collection he had dedicated to his wife, Contes pour Caprine. Caprine Lent lived until the end of her life at the "Maison Blanche" in Anderlecht, now Fondation Maurice Carême. She was buried alongside her poet husband, in the Cimetière Communal de Wavre.
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"Who is Caprine? At first, I gave this name to my wife because of the vivacity and spontaneity of her actions, reflections and even reflexes. Capra - in Latin - means goat - hence this name. The sketch of the "Illustrations" is essentially his portrait. Later, this name of Caprine evolved and quickly became - a physical image that it was - a mental image. This mental image can not be used to express all my personality - since I had known other women - and that, moreover, I constantly used my memories - especially those that related to you - this mental image precise expands considerably and ends up meaning the ideal woman, the one that every man carries in the depths of himself. And now Caprine is for me only a symbol of love. It is a word that, once emptied of its physical content, has been stuffed with all my desires, all my fantasies, all the ghosts of my imagination. You are now part of this Caprine which is no more than a fiction of poet. You must have suffered - as everyone else - from this duality, this antagonism that exists between dream and reality - between material life and the life we imagine. This is what makes both the soft power and the deep melancholy of memories, the splendor of dreams of the future, the divinity of hope. (...)
~ letter from Maurice Carême addressed to the poet, Julia Tulkens, 15 February 1929
Caprine Carême, the widow of the poet Maurice Carême, died Thursday, 8 February 1990, at the hospital, Az Damiaan, in Ostend. She was 91 years old.
Born Andrée Gobron, she was for more than half a century the wife, the muse and the interpreter of the poet, who died in 1978. It was with him that she notably gave a memorable recital in Moscow in front of several hundred students sitting on the ground, and met prisoners in the prison of Nivelles where everything was allowed except for texts about freedom.
The Victor Rossel prize was awarded in 1948 to Maurice Carême for the collection he had dedicated to his wife, Contes pour Caprine. Caprine Lent lived until the end of her life at the "Maison Blanche" in Anderlecht, now Fondation Maurice Carême. She was buried alongside her poet husband, in the Cimetière Communal de Wavre.
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"Who is Caprine? At first, I gave this name to my wife because of the vivacity and spontaneity of her actions, reflections and even reflexes. Capra - in Latin - means goat - hence this name. The sketch of the "Illustrations" is essentially his portrait. Later, this name of Caprine evolved and quickly became - a physical image that it was - a mental image. This mental image can not be used to express all my personality - since I had known other women - and that, moreover, I constantly used my memories - especially those that related to you - this mental image precise expands considerably and ends up meaning the ideal woman, the one that every man carries in the depths of himself. And now Caprine is for me only a symbol of love. It is a word that, once emptied of its physical content, has been stuffed with all my desires, all my fantasies, all the ghosts of my imagination. You are now part of this Caprine which is no more than a fiction of poet. You must have suffered - as everyone else - from this duality, this antagonism that exists between dream and reality - between material life and the life we imagine. This is what makes both the soft power and the deep melancholy of memories, the splendor of dreams of the future, the divinity of hope. (...)
~ letter from Maurice Carême addressed to the poet, Julia Tulkens, 15 February 1929
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