Paul Verlaine: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Paul-Marie Verlaine
Born	March 30, 1844 • Metz • France
Died	January 8, 1896 (aged 51) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Confessions, notes autobiographiques” • “Fêtes galantes” • “Jadis et naguère” • “Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui” • “Les Poètes maudits” • “Mes Hôpitaux” • “Mes Prisons” • “Poèmes saturniens” • “Romances sans paroles” • “Sagesse”
Movement / Style	Symbolism • Decadent • Parnassian

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Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.

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Stéphane Mallarmé, 1891.

Stéphane Mallarmé

French poet

Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet

Catulle Mendès.

Catulle Mendès

French author

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Peyo Yavorov

Bulgarian author

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.

Michel Houellebecq

French author

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

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Romain Rolland

French writer

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Charles Maurras

French writer and political theorist

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Françoise Mallet-Joris

Belgian author

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Henri Michaux

French painter and poet

Hervé Bazin, 1961

Hervé Bazin

French author

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Alfred de Musset

French author

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Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

French write and Nobel laureate André Gide

André Gide

French writer

Claudel

Paul Claudel

French author

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Charles Cros

French inventor and poet

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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle

French poet

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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