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    Jean Lorrain (9 August 1855 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime – 30 June 1906), born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist...
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    de Gourmont (as Francis Amery), Dedalus Monsieur de Phocas (1994) by Jean Lorrain (as Francis Amery), Dedalus Vampire City (1999) (La Ville Vampire by...
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    Scriabin (2003), Box Set. Prométhée; Tragédie Lyrique En 3 Actes De Jean Lorrain & F.a. Hérold (French Edition) by Fauré, Gabriel, 1845–1924, Paul Alexandre...
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    either knew or suspected it. In 1897, he even fought a duel with writer Jean Lorrain, who publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with his...
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  • promotion of literary realism against Stedman's defense of idealism. Jean Lorrain wrote an unfavorable review of Marcel Proust's Pleasures and Days in...
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    include Albert Aurier, Rachilde, Pierre Vareilles, Miguel Hernández, Jean Lorrain and Laurent Tailhade. Many of these authors did also publish symbolist...
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    d'Aurevilly, Jean Lorrain, and Oscar Wilde, who brought his lover Lord Alfred Douglas to her salons. She is known to have appeared at events with Lorrain while...
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    Lorrain is a language (often referred to as patois) spoken by now a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium...
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    first performed in 1900 with a French libretto written by the poets Jean Lorrain and André-Ferdinand Hérold, the scene from the beginning of Prometheus...
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    Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November...
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    1902, he holidayed in Venice, where he associated with the novelist Jean Lorrain. On his return to Paris, he published a novel, Notre Dame des mers mortes...
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    D'Annunzio in Il Piacere, Paul-Jean Toulet in Monsieur de Paur (1898), Octave Mirbeau in Jardin des Supplices (1899) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901)...
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  • the short story Un verre de sang (A Glass of Blood) from French poet Jean Lorrain with tells the tale of wealthy French people, who, at the turn of the...
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    Retrieved January 13, 2016.[permanent dead link] Jean Lorrain (1936). La Ville Empoisonnée. Paris: Jean Cres. p. 279. ...the great voracious mouth, the...
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    coats and dazzling jewels preceded her appearances wherever she went. Jean Lorrain said of her: Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip...
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    effeminate face”, according to Jean-Yves Tadié, Daudet lived a fashionable life which made him meet Marcel Proust. In 1897, Jean Lorrain publicly questioned the...
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    French) Jean Lorrain (1855–1906) Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) Alexandre Mercereau (1884–1945) Oscar Milosz (1877–1939) Lithuanian (wrote in French) Jean Moréas...
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    Robinson's 1917 poem Merlin and Alan Seeger's 1916 poem Brocéliande. Jean Lorrain wrote the play Brocéliande (1898), about Myrddhin (Merlin) and Viviane...
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    glittering with jewels, of Muses carrying blood drained severed heads." – Jean Lorrain: 79 p.  His influence on symbolism in his lifetime and the decade following...
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  • completely forgotten today, he influenced contemporaries such as Rachilde and Jean Lorrain. His best-known work, based on the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, is L'Agonie...
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    Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Jean Moréas, Gustave Kahn, Albert Samain, Jean Lorrain, Rémy de Gourmont, Pierre Louÿs, Tristan Corbière...
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    Claude Dufresne, Appelez-moi George Sand 2005 – Thibaut d'Anthonay, Jean Lorrain 2006 – Angie David, Dominique Aury 2007 – Patrice Locmant, Huysmans,...
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    but survived. 5 February 1897: Marcel Proust fought journalist Jean Lorrain, after Lorrain published an excoriating review of Proust's first book "Pleasures...
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    D'Annunzio in Il Piacere, Paul-Jean Toulet in Monsieur de Paur (1898), Octave Mirbeau in Jardin des Supplices (1899) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901)...
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  • Époque Paris, including Robert de Montesquiou, Prince Edmond de Polignac, Jean Lorrain, Sarah Bernhardt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde. According to...
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    husband. The couple frequently entertained guests, including Mirbeau, Jean Lorrain, and Paul Fort. They spent their summers in Normandy. During this period...
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  • Among the staff Black met with at the QSC was Jean Lorrain who was the Director of Compliance. Lorrain later went on to testify at an inquiry into the...
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    The opera won a "cult following" among young aesthetes, and the writer Jean Lorrain satirised the Pelléastres who aped the costumes and hairstyles of Mary...
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    autour du monde Deux mélodies Découragement À Saint Blaise Poèmes de Jean Lorrain no. 1. Le Beau Pirate no. 2. Les Petites Ophélies no. 3. Les Petits Elfes...
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  • anything cruel, unhealthy or sordid his favourite source of inspiration was Jean Lorrain, author of Monsieur de Phocas, one of the key works of fin de siècle...
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