Marie Closset

Marie Closset (August 16, 1873 – July 20, 1952) was a Belgian poet. She wrote under the name Jean Dominique.

Biography She was born in Brussels and was educated under the system of education developed by Isabelle Gatti de Gamond. She chose to write under a male "nom de plume" so that her work would be judged on its own merits; the name came from a character in a novel by Eugène Fromentin. Her poems were first published in small literary magazines and later in the Mercure de France. She published several collections of poems: La Gaule blanche (1903) L'Anémone des mers (1906) L'Aile mouillée (1909) Le Puits d'azur (1912) Sable sans Fleurs (1926)

Her poem Le Don silencieux was set to music by Gabriel Fauré. The composer Gabriel Grovlez also set poems by Closset to music.