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Born August 16, 1860 • Montevideo • Uruguay
Died August 20, 1887 (aged 27) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” • “Les Complaintes”
Movement / Style Symbolism

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André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Black and white portrait of French novelist Emile Zola with glasses, a full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking to the side.
Émile Zola
French author
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
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
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Colette
Colette
French writer
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Nerval, Gérard de
Gérard de Nerval
French poet
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Pierre-Jean Jouve
French author
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Marguerite Yourcenar
French author
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Bonaventure Des Périers
French author
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Philippe de Vitry
French composer
Bertrand, Aloysius
Aloysius Bertrand
French author

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