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Maurice Maeterlinck

Died in 1949

Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent on 29 August 1862 into a bourgeois, Catholic, French-speaking family. A pupil of the Jesuits at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, he studied law and was briefly a lawyer. In Paris, he frequented the Symbolists, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam above all, and an article by Octave Mirbeau made him famous. Author of Symbolist dramas and of essays on bees, termites and ants, he settled in France and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. A refugee in the United States during the Second World War, he died in Nice on 6 May 1949.

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