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REGNIER, See also:HENRI See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH DE (1864– ) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Honfleur (See also:Calvados) on the 28th of See also:December 1864, and was educated in See also:Paris for the See also:law. In 1885 he began to contribute to the Parisian reviews, and his verses found their way into most of the French and Belgian See also:periodicals favourable to the symbolist writers. Having begun, however, to write under the leadership of the Parnassians, he retained the classical tradition, though he adopted some of the innovations of See also:Moreas and Gustave Rahn. His gorgeous and vaguely suggestive See also:style shows the See also:influence of Stephane See also:Mallarme, of whom he was an assiduous See also:disciple. His first See also:volume of poems, Lendemains, appeared in 1885, and among numerous later volumes are Fames anciens et romanesques (189o), See also:Les Jeux rustiques et divins (189o), Les Medailles d'argent (1900), La Cite See also:des eaux (1903). He is also the author of a See also:series of realistic novels and tales, among which are La Canne de jaspe (2nd ed., 1897), La See also:Double Maitresse (5th ed., 'goo), Les Vacances d'un jeune homme See also:sage (1904), and Les Amants singuliers (1905). M. de Regnier married Mlle. See also:Marie de See also:Heredia, daughter of the poet, and herself a novelist and poet under the name of See also:Gerard d'Houville. See E. See also:Gosse, French Profiles (1905), and Pobtes d'aujourd'hui (6th ed., 1905), by See also:van Bever and Leautaud.

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