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Stéphane Mallarmé: Quick Facts

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Born March 18, 1842 • Paris • France
Died September 9, 1898 (aged 56) • near Fontainebleau • France
Notable Works “Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance” • “Divagations” • “Grand Oeuvre” • “Hérodiade” • “L’Après-midi d’un faune”
Movement / Style Symbolism • Decadent

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Stéphane Mallarmé, 1891.
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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
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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
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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
Fort, Paul
Paul Fort
French poet
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French author
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
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
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Eugénio de Castro
Portuguese poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author

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