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Tristan Corbière

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Tristan Corbière

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Also known as Tristan Corbiere

French poet

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Tristan Corbière was a French author who lived from 1845 to 1875. His literary output includes works such as *Armor Gens de mer*, *Litanie du sommeil*, and *Les amours jaunes*. He is also associated with the text *Tristan Corbière; un essai*.

Records indicate that Corbière has 27 listed works in one database and 5 in another. His writings have been referenced by 62 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Born
Édouard-Joachim Corbière , ( 1845-07-18 ) 18 July 1845, Morlaix , Brittany , France
Died
1 March 1875 (1875-03-01) (aged 29), Morlaix, Brittany, France
Occupation
Poet
Genre
Poetry
Literary movement
Symbolism
Notable works
Les Amours jaunes

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Joachim
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Morlaix
Place of death
Morlaix
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Movement
Symbolism
Image
Tristan Corbiere portrait.jpg
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Commons category
Tristan Corbière
cause of death
tuberculosis
date of birth
1845-07-18
date of death
1875-03-01
medical condition
tuberculosis
birth name
Édouard-Joachim Corbière
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Tristan Corbière
ethnic group
French
writing language
French
place of burial
Morlaix
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Encyclopedic overview

Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the "cursed poet".

He is the author of a single collection of poetry, Les Amours jaunes, and of a few prose pieces. He led a mostly marginal and miserable life, nourished by two major failures due to his bone disease and his "ugliness" which he enjoyed accusing: the first is his sentimental life (he only loved one woman, called "Marcelle" in his work), and the second being his passion for the sea (he dreamt of becoming a sailor, like his father, Édouard Corbière). His poetry carries these two great wounds which led him to adopt a very cynical and incisive style, towards himself as much towards the life and world around him.

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