Pétrus Borel

Pétrus Borel was born in Lyon in 1809, the twelfth of the fourteen children of an ironmonger. Trained in architecture, he gave it up for literature and was in Paris the leading figure of the Petit Cénacle and the Bousingots, young Romantics among whom were Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval. His books sold badly. In 1845, thanks to Gautier, he obtained a post in the colonial administration in Algeria, from which he was later dismissed, and he died near Mostaganem in July 1859.

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• PoetryRhapsodies 1831RhapsodiesPétrus Borel · 1832LiteraturePublic domain