Jean Vuaillat was a French Roman Catholic priest, poet and biographer.
13 Facts About Jean Vuaillat
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Jean Vuaillat served as a priest in Lyon as well as small towns in the Loire and Rhone regions until he became a canon at the Lyon Cathedral in 1982.
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Jean Vuaillat won five literary prizes from the Academie francaise.
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Jean Vuaillat served as a vicar in Givors near Lyon, and later at the Eglise Saint-Pierre de Vaise in Lyon.
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Jean Vuaillat subsequently published an account of his service in Poland entitled Ma vie en Pologne sous le IIIeme Reich.
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Jean Vuaillat served as the vicar in Saint-Martin-en-Coailleux in the Loire region from 1950 to 1959.
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Jean Vuaillat was a vicar at the Basilica of St Therese in Lisieux from 1959 to 1967, with a stint at Our Lady of Laus.
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Jean Vuaillat served as a vicar in Sainte-Catherine in the Rhone region from 1967 to 1982.
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Jean Vuaillat was the founder and editor of Laudes, a journal, from 1967 to 2006.
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Jean Vuaillat won five literary prizes from the Academie francaise: the Prix Vega et Lods de Wegmann for Solitude de neige in 1966; the Prix Archon-Desperouses for Douze psaumes in 1970; the Prix Marie Havez-Planque for Apprivoiser la mort in 1976; the Prix Capuran for Mariales et signets pour Noel in 1980; and the Prix Francois Coppee for Ciels d'arriere-saison in 1996.
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Jean Vuaillat published the biographies of composers Mozart and Gabriel Faure.
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Jean Vuaillat maintained a correspondence with Leopold Sedar Senghor, among many others.
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Jean Vuaillat bequeathed half his book collection to the Bibliotheque municipale de Lyon; the other half was auctioned.