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Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Early life and career [ edit ] Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux . [1]
- Poetry
- 22 May 1841, Bordeaux, France
- Poet
- 8 February 1909 (aged 67), Saint Germain, France
Mar 26, 2024 · Catulle Mendès (born May 22, 1841, Bordeaux, France—died Feb. 9, 1909, Paris) was a prolific French poet, playwright, and novelist, most noted for his association with the Parnassians, a group of French poets who advocated a controlled, formal art for art’s sake in reaction to the formlessness of Romanticism.
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Le jeune Catulle Mendes, 1865. Abraham Catulle Mendès est issu d'une lignée de Juifs portugais. Petit-fils du banquier Isaac Mendès, Catulle Mendès est le fils du négociant Tibulle Abraham Mendès et de Suzanne Brun, catholique qui élève son fils dans sa religion. Après une enfance et une adolescence à Toulouse, Mendès arrive à Paris ...
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Auguste Renoir. Letter to Catulle Mendès. April 1888 [Fondation Custodia, Paris; published in French and English in Bailey 1991, pp. 44, 157 n. 4; reproduced in Luijten 2021], proposes that he paint a life-size portrait of Mendès's three daughters for Fr 500, adding that he intends to exhibit the painting in May; includes a quick sketch of the proposed horizontal composition with a ...
Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters. Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux. After childhood and adolescence in Toulouse, he arrived in Paris in 1859 and quickly became one of the proteges of the poet Théophile Gautier. He promptly attained notoriety with the publication in the La Revue fantaisiste (1861 ...
Quick Reference. (1841–1909). Versatile, prolific, and superficial, Mendès is now more remembered for his critical writing than for his poetry, novels, and plays. With the support of Gautier (whose daughter, Julie, he ... From: Mendès, Catulle in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French ». Subjects: Literature — Children's ...
MENDÈS, CATULLE (1841–1909), French poet. Mendès was born in Bordeaux. His father was a banker of Sephardi origin and his mother a Catholic. At the age of 18 he went to Paris, where in 1861 he founded La Revue fantaisiste – the first of several journals issued by the French Parnassian poets. It stressed their anti-utilitarianism and their ...
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