The author Christian Bobin, essayist and poet who had notably made himself known with his book devoted to Saint-François d'Assise,
Le Très-Bas,
died at the age of 71, Thursday, announced his publisher Gallimard Friday morning.
The writer, very attached to his native Creusot, had achieved a first coup by publishing in 1991
A little party dress.
As noticed on the literary scene as discreet and on the margins of his society life, Christian Bobin had received in 2016 the prize of the French Academy for all of his work.