Théophile Gautier
1811 – 1872 · aged 61
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
- Born
- 30 Aug 1811 · Tarbes
- Died
- 23 Oct 1872 · Neuilly-sur-Seine
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- 30 Aug 1811BornBorn in Tarbes
- 23 Oct 1872DiedDied in Neuilly-sur-Seine
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- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: goh-TYAY; French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde.
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