Writing
Joseph Delteil
April 20, 1894 – April 12, 1978 · aged 83 Villar-en-Val, Aude, France
Joseph Delteil (20 April 1894 – 16 April 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. Joseph Delteil was born in the farm of La Pradeille, from a woodcutter-charcoal father and a "buissonnière" mother. Joseph Delteil spent the first four years of his childhood at the Borie (construction of dry stones) of Guillamau, 30 kilometers south of Carcassonne, in the Val de Dagne. Of this hovel, today there remain only stumps of walls, which one can always see while hiking on the "Path in poetry" at the entrance of which one reads "Here the time goes on foot" created by Magalie Arnaud, mayor of Villar-en-Val, and her friends to honor the memory of the poet. In 1898, his father purchased a vineya…
