Bernard Bonnejean (born 10 June 1950 in Ernée, Mayenne), is a French author, specialist of catholic French poetry of 19th and 20th centuries.
Bernard Bonnejean is the last of eight children of a family of PicardyâÂÂs origin. In 1959 the family moved to Le Mans where the father, Maurice, is ironsmith to Arsenal, then clerk after retirement. The family settled in 1965 in Mayenne.
After earning his baccalauréat, Bernard Bonnejean works as a teacher and middle school professor in Catholic education. He's licencié es Lettres, Bachelor of Arts, and certified teacher of modern literature, in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour. He finished his career as a teacher in a secondary school in Laval, Mayenne as an Agrégé de Lettres modernes. He earned the title of Doctor after leaving education.
He was secretary of the Association Mayennaise dâÂÂéchanges et de partage (AMEP) from 1975 to 2001, to finance the apprenticeship of young Cameroonian mothers, founder and president of the Association Lycée en Poésie.
Bernard Bonnejean expressed in 1996 about the true catholicism of Paul Verlaine. Particularly, he examines the work of catholic Joris-Karl Huysmans and poetry of Therese of Lisieux. His thesis entitled Les Poètes catholiques français de Verlaine àPéguy, 1870-1914 (The French-Catholics Poets from Verlaine to Péguy, 1870-1914), is sustained in 2003 in the University of Rennes 2 - Upper Brittany.
⢠âÂÂLiturgies intimes, un recueil àredécouvrirâÂÂ, ("Liturgies intimes, a collection to rediscover"), in Spiritualité verlainienne, Actes du colloque international de Metz (novembre 1996), (Proceedings of International Symposium of Metz Metz (November 1996), Klincksieck, 1997 ().
⢠"Le Verlaine de Guy Goffette", in Revue Verlaine nð 5, 1997.
⢠"Huysmans avant àRebours : les fondements nécessaires d'une quête en devenir", in Le Mal dans l'imaginaire français (1850âÂÂ1950), éd. David et L'Harmattan, 1998 (); "Huysmans before A Rebours: The necessary foundation for a quest to become", The evil in the French imaginary (1850âÂÂ1950), Ed. David and L'Harmattan, 1998 ()
⢠Les Poètes français d'inspiration catholique (1870âÂÂ1914), The French inspired Catholic poets (1870âÂÂ1914), 2 vol., (695p.), thèse de doctorat, Université de Rennes-II, 2003; Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2004.
⢠Poésie thérésienne, (Poetry of Therese), Preface Constant Tonnelier, ÃÂditions du Cerf, Paris, 2006, II-292 p., (), (FRBNF 40238743k).
The thesis is published in three volumes
⢠Clio et ses poètes, Clio and her poets : the Catholic poets in history, 1870-1914, with a foreword by Don Bertrand Gamelin, ÃÂditions du Cerf, Paris, 2007, 354 p., ()
⢠Le Dur Métier dâÂÂapôtre, The hard work of Apostle : Catholic poets to discover a real authenticity, 1870-1914, with a preface by Olivier Bourdelier, ÃÂditions du Cerf, Paris, 2009, 320 p., (), (FRBNF 42011100g).
⢠Les Chemins d'un ÃÂden retrouvé, Paths of Paradise Found, Forthcoming.
⢠Blog de Bernard Bonnejean;