Mireille Havet

Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist.

Mireille Havet

She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier.^[1] She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923. She was friends with Jean Cocteau and Colette, who referred to her as "la petite poyétesse".^[2]

She was openly lesbian.^[2][3]

Her diary, which she kept from 1913 to 1929, was only found again in 1995, and published in 2003.^[2]

On 29 January 2009, a public square was named after her in Paris.^[3]