Théophile Gautier
Novelist, Author
1811 – 1872
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Who was Théophile Gautier?
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic.
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1811
Tarbes - Also known as
- Theophile Gautier
- Théophile Gautier
- Theophile Gauthier
- Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Died
- Oct 23, 1872
Neuilly-sur-Seine - Resting place
- Montmartre Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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