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Also Known As Joseph-Albert-Alexandre Glatigny
Born May 21, 1839 • Lillebonne • France
Died April 16, 1873 (aged 33) • Sèvres • France
Movement / Style Parnassian

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“Glatigny the Improviser,” pen and ink caricature by André Gill; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris
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Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Sully Prudhomme.
Sully Prudhomme
French poet
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Louis-Nicolas Ménard
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Banville, Théodore de
Théodore de Banville
French poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
François Villon
François Villon
French poet
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
Paul Valéry.
Paul Valéry
French critic and poet
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Ronsard, portrait after an engraving by L. Gaultier, 1557
Pierre de Ronsard
French poet

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