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Romanticism. Gérard de Nerval ( French: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval]; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855), the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, was a French essayist, poet, translator, and travel writer. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best known for his novellas and poems ...
- Gérard Labrunie, 22 May 1808, Paris, France
- poet, essayist and translator
- 26 January 1855 (aged 46), Paris, France
Mar 28, 2024 · Gérard de Nerval (born May 22, 1808, Paris, France—died January 26, 1855, Paris) was a French Romantic poet whose themes and preoccupations greatly influenced the Symbolists and Surrealists. Nerval’s father, a doctor, was sent to serve with Napoleon’s Rhine army; his mother died when he was two years old, and he grew up in the care of ...
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Gérard de Nerval is the pen name of French Romantic poet and author Gérard Labrunie, who was born in Paris. He was the son of an army doctor and was raised by his great-uncle in the Mortefontaine countryside while his parents traveled to the front. His mother died when he was two years old. In 1828, Labrunie published a widely praised ...
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Gérard de Nerval (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval]; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado."
Gérard de Nerval, a.k.a. Gerard Labrunie, was born in Paris in 1808. The son of a military doctor in Napoleon's Grande Armée, de Nerval's mother died shortly after his birth. The young child was sent to a maternal relative in the French countryside, where he spent several years.
- Raymond Cavanaugh
- 2011
May 21, 2018 · Gérard de Nerval. The French poet and writer Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) was an early romantic. His prose and poetry mark him as a precursor of the many movements, from symbolism to surrealism, that shaped modern French literature. Gérard de Nerval was born Gérard Labrunie on May 22, 1808, in Paris. Because of his parents' immediate ...
Gérard de Nerval was born Gérard Labrunie, the son of Étienne Labrunie, a medical doctor, and of Marie-Antoinette Marguerite Laurent, daughter of a Paris draper. Nerval did not change his name ...
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