biography
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Régnier, Henri (-François-Joseph) de
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pronunciation:
[raynyay]
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| lived:
| (1864–1936)
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and critic, born in Honfleur, NW France. He studied law in Paris, but came under the influence of the Symbolist poets and published his first volume of poems, Lendemains (Tomorrows) in 1885, followed by Poèmes anciens et romanesques (1887–9) and Jeux rustiques et divins (1897, Games - Tough and Divine). He moved towards a Parnassian aesthetic with Les Médailles d'argile (1900, Clay Medals), La Cité des Eaux (1906) on Versailles, and La Sandale ailée (1906, The Winged Sandal). His novels, mainly concerned with France and Italy in the 17th-c and 18th-c, include La double Maîtresse (1900), Le Mariage de Minuit (1903), and Le Voyage d'amour (1930). In both poetry and prose his style and mood were admirably suited to evocation of the past, and expressive of a melancholy disillusionment induced by the passage of time. In 1893 he married Marie, daughter of José Hérédia, who had been one of his masters. She was also a poet and novelist under the pseudonym Gerard d'Houville. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1911. |
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