Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris on 18 March 1842. He learned English to read Poe better, married in London in 1863 and taught that language at the lycée of Tournon from the same year, then in Besançon and Avignon, and finally in Paris from 1871. He received young writers at his home, rue de Rome, on Tuesdays, among them Paul Valéry. Retired in 1893, elected prince of poets in 1896, he lived more and more at Valvins, on the banks of the Seine, where he died on 9 September 1898.

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• EssayDivagationsStéphane Mallarmé · 1897LiteraturePublic domain