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Born December 21, 1859 • Metz • France
Died September 5, 1936 (aged 76) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Symbolism
Subjects Of Study vers libre

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Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
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Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Théophile Gautier
French author
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
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Remy de Gourmont
French author
Adam, Paul
Paul Adam
French author
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Yves Bonnefoy
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François de Malherbe, engraving after an oil painting by Adrien Dumoutier.
François de Malherbe
French poet
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
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Joachim du Bellay, pencil drawing, 16th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Joachim du Bellay
French poet

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