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Jules Laforgue

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Franco-Uruguayan poet (1860–1887)

Person · Open Library

Born
1860
Died
1887
Works
102

Top works

  • Soleils funestes
  • Les derniers vers de Jules Laforgue
  • Dragées ; Charles Baudelaire ; Tristan Corbière
  • Hamlet
  • Les complaintes

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1860
Active to
1887

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
75
Total plays
178

Tags

poetryfrench

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Key facts

Born
( 1860-08-16 ) 16 August 1860, Montevideo , Uruguay
Died
20 August 1887 (1887-08-20) (aged 27), Paris , France

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Jules Laforgue, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Jules Laforgue ( French: [ʒyl lafɔʁɡ]; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jules Laforgue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.