Albert-Alexandre Glatigny

Albert-Alexandre Glatigny (born May 21, 1839, Lillebonne, France—died April 16, 1873, Sèvres) was a French poet of the Parnassian school, known for his small poems of satiric comment and for his peripatetic life as a strolling actor and improvisationalist. A poor boy apprenticed to a printer, Glatigny wrote a historical drama at 16 and a year later ran off to join a traveling theatre company. While he was on the road the barbed language of...