biography
pronunciation:
[goormã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1915)
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| biography:
| Critic, poet, and novelist, born in Bazoche en Houlme, NW France. He studied law at Caen, then joined the Bibliothèque Nationale (1881), but was dismissed in 1891 for publishing an allegedly unpatriotic article entitled ‘Le Joujou Patriotisme’ in the Mercure de France which he had co-founded. He belonged to the Symbolist school, publishing Le Latin mystique (1892), Fleurs de Jadis (1893), and Couleurs (1908). His important critical works include L'Esthétique de la Langue Française (1899), Les Promenades littéraires (1904–13), and Les Promenades philosophiques (1905–9). Among his novels are Sixtine: Roman de la vie cérébrale (1890), Le songe d'une femme (1899), and Un Coeur virginal (1907). |
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