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Georges Rodenbach

Died in 1898

Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai on 16 July 1855 and grew up in Ghent, where he was a schoolfriend of Verhaeren before studying law there. A collaborator of the lawyer Edmond Picard in Brussels, he left the bar in 1881 for letters and took part in La Jeune Belgique from its first issue. A correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, he settled in Paris in 1888 and frequented Mallarmé and the Goncourts. He died in Paris on 25 December 1898 and is buried at Père-Lachaise.

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