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SILVESTRE, PAUL ARMAND (1837-1901)

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SILVESTRE, See also:PAUL ARMAND (1837-1901) , See also:French poet and conteur, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 18th of See also:April 1837. He studied at the Ecole polytechnique with the intention of entering the See also:army, but in 187o he entered the See also:department of See also:finance. He had a successful See also:official career, was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1886, and in 1892 was made inspector of See also:fine arts. Armand Silvestre made his entry into literature as a poet, and was reckoned among the Parnassians. His volumes of See also:verse include: Rimes neuves et vieilles (1866), to which See also:George See also:Sand wrote a See also:preface; See also:Les Renaissances (1870); La Chanson See also:des heures (1878); Le Chemin des etoiles (1885), &c. The poet was also a contributor to Gil See also:Bias and other Parisian See also:journals, distinguishing himself by the See also:licence he permitted himself. To ' these " absences " from See also:poetry, as See also:Henri See also:Chantavoine calls them, belong the seven volumes of La See also:Vie pour See also:Tire (1881-1883), Conies pantagrueliques et galants (1884), Le Livre des joyeusete's (1884), Gauloiseries nouvelles (1888), &c. For the See also:stage he wrote in many different See also:manners: Sapho (1881), a See also:drama; See also:Henry VIII (1883), with Leonce Detroyat, See also:music by See also:Saint-Saens; and the Drames sacres (1893), religious pictures after 14th- and 15th-See also:century See also:Italian painters, with music by See also:Gounod. An See also:account of his varied and somewhat incongruous See also:production is hardly See also:complete without mention of his See also:art See also:criticism. Le Nu au See also:Salon (1888-1892), in five volumes, with numerous illustrations, was followed by other volumes of the same type. He died at;See also:Toulouse on the 19th of See also:February 1901.

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