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Marcel Barral (1909 – 1997) was a French poet born in Marseillan, Hérault.

He was married to Josephine Bousquet, who died in 1988. He had one son, named Henri Barral.

He was a teacher, and later a professor and inspector of academies. He was posted to Senegal and Egypt.

Under the name Marcel Viala, he published a collection entitled « Entre les quatre fleuves », (Between the four rivers), in memory of the three Voltas (rivers of black Africa, where he had spent a part of his life) and the Hérault, the river after which the département of his birth is named.

He died in 1997.

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