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Born February 1, 1872 • Reims • France
Died April 20, 1960 (aged 88) • France
Movement / Style Symbolism

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Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
Stéphane Mallarmé, 1891.
Stéphane Mallarmé
French poet
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Paul Claudel
French author
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Charles Cros
French inventor and poet
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
French poet
Jean Moréas.
Jean Moréas
French poet
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Francis Viélé-Griffin
French poet
Henri de Régnier
Henri de Régnier
French poet
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Léon-Paul Fargue
French poet and essayist
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet
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Max Elskamp
Belgian poet
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Georges Rodenbach
Belgian poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic

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