biography
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Bertrand, Aloysius
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popular name of Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand
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pronunciation:
[bairtrã]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1807–41)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Ceva, Piémont, NE France. The son of a soldier, he was too poor to live in the literary circles which attracted him from the age of 20, and he died prematurely from tuberculosis. His series of prose pictures, Gaspard de la nuit, appeared posthumously (1842). The hero symbolizes mysterious and fantastic forces. The text, difficult at first, was rescued from oblivion by Baudelaire and Mallarmé, and it inspired a Suite by Maurice Ravel. |
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