Editing Paul Fort (section)

==Poet Laureate of the Third Republic==

Paul Fort was a leading jury member of the [[Prix Jeunesse]] that was created in 1934. Running in 1943 for the [[Académie Goncourt]] seat left vacant by the death of [[Pierre Champion]] a year earlier, Fort lost to [[André Billy (writer)|André Billy]], though Billy was confirmed to the seat only after the [[Libération]].

His work was banned by the CNE ([[National Writers' Committee]] of the intellectual resistance) at the end of war, but the interdiction was rescinded in a second list published in the [[Les Lettres françaises]] of 21 October 1944.

But he officially recovered when introducing an exhibition dedicated to him in 1954 at the Reims [[Carnegie Library]].

In 1956, Paul married Germaine Pouget.  His nephew married the daughter of Alfred Vallette (1858–1935), director of [[Mercure de France]], and [[Marguerite Eymery]] (1860–1953), who wrote under the ''nom de plume'' [[Rachilde]].

Paul Fort was buried at Montlhery on his own property, called Argenlieu.