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Paul Verlaine
Paul Marie Verlaine was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist and Decadent movements. He is considered one of the paramount exponents of the fin de siècle in French and international poetry.
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culture · French poet (1844–1896) · poet · essayist · writer · librettist · translator · also Paul Verlaine, Paul-Marie Verlaine, Verlaine
Born 30 March 1844 · Died 8 January 1896 · Q755
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1896· 1 entry
Died 1896-01-08.
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1894· 2 entries
Following a referendum organised by Maurice Barrès consulting various people of letters
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Was elected France's "Prince of Poets" by his peers
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1886· 1 entry
It was the term symbolism which was most often applied to the new literary environment
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1884· 1 entry
To refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont, Tristan Corbière or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke,
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1877· 1 entry
And, while teaching English at a school in Rethel, fell in love with one of his pupils, Lucien Létinois, who inspired Verlaine to write further poems
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1873· 2 entries
In a drunken, jealous rage, Verlaine fired two shots with a pistol at his lover, Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet
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Which was caused by him wounding Rimbaud with a revolver
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1863· 1 entry
In La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-03-30.
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