biography
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Glatigny, Albert-Alexandre
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in full Joseph-Albert-Alexandre Glatigny
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pronunciation:
[glateenyee]
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| lived:
| (1839–73)
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| biography:
| Poet and actor, born in Lillebonne, NW France. Of humble origin, he wrote a historical drama at 16 and joined a travelling theatre company the next year. At 21 he wrote his first book of poems Les Vignes folles (1860). He wrote further collections, and also plays including Le Singe and Les Folies-Marigny (both 1872). A member of the Parnassian School of poetry, he was celebrated by another Parnassian, Catulle Mendès, in the latter's play Glatigny, drame funambulesque (1906). Glatigny died in Sèvres, after a short but colourful life. |
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