![]() ![]() ![]() But after studying at Harvard, he set off instead on a path of adventure and discovery in Paris, the City of Lights: the city of poets, of Gertrude Stein, Natalie Clifford Barney and Apollinaire, whom for a short time he counted among his friends. This young man from a privileged background could have benefited from the family fortune, acquired through a sugar refinery business. He was one of the very first Americans to sacrifice his life, a year even before his country committed to fighting with France and its allies on the battlefield. Alan Seeger was born an American citizen in the United States, but he died for France. It was 4 July 1916, Independence Day in his native country. Yet he died a very long way from his homeland, in the ravaged plains of the Somme, where it should have been harvesting season. In 2019 Maison Taittinger acquired the poem “Champagne”, written during the First World War by Alan Seeger, an American poet who died serving a country that wasn’t his own.Īlan Seeger was born and grew up on Staten Island, opposite the Statue of Liberty’s beacon of light beaming out over the world. ![]()
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