biography
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Saint-Pol-Roux, Pierre-Paul
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pseudonym of Pierre-Paul Roux
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pronunciation:
[sĩ pol roo]
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| lived:
| (1861–1940)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Saint-Henri, near Marseille, S France. He lived a retiring life in Brittany (following the advice of a fortune-teller), named his manor after his son, Coecilian, who was killed at Verdun in 1915, and died there himself after it was sacked by the Nazis. He was the founder of idéréalisme, which explains the attraction he had for the Surrealists. In his work he evolved towards fantasy, and his several books include Les Reposoirs de la Procession (1893), La Rose et les Epines du Chemin (1901), De la Colombe au Corbeau par le Paon (1904), Les Fééries Intérieures (1907), and Le poète continue Dieu. |
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