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Théophile Gautier
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Definition:[1811 - 1872]a French author of poetry, novels, plays and short stories. He knew and admired both Victor Hugo and Balzac
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I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian argot which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France.
Theophile Gautier. The Mummy's Foot
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Nothing moved in those gloomy, waste poems whose impassive mythologies ended by finally leaving him cold. Too, after having long delighted in Gautier, Des Esseintes reached the point where he no longer cared for him.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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