Jehan-Rictus

French poet and anarchist. His early Symbolist work was published under his birth name, Gabriel Randon, but he later adopted the pen name Jehan-Rictus and published more popular working class poems including his best known collection 'Les Soliloques du Pauvre' (1897), but by the time of WWI he had become a nationalist and Royalist. His early passion for anarchism resulted in an unpublished novel, 'l'Impostor' (c. 1892), recounting the return of Christ to France, a theme returned to in his most famous poem 'Le Revenant' about a meeting between a tramp and Jesus.