Paul Valery

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Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years. Valéry was born to a Corsican father and Genoese-Istrian mother in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault, but he was raised in Montpellier, a larger urban center close by. After a traditional Roman Catholic education, he studied law at university and then resided in Paris for most of the remainder of his life, where he was, for a while, part of the circle of Stéphane Mallarmé. In 1900, he married Jeannine Gobillard, a friend of Stéphane Mallarmé's family, who was also a niece of the painter Berthe Morisot. The wedding was a double ceremony in which the bride's cousin, Morisot's daughter, Julie Manet, married the painter Ernest Rouart . Valéry and Gobillard had three children: Claude, Agathe and François. Valéry served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians. Though his earliest publications date from his mid-twenties, Valéry did not become a full-time writer until 1920, when the man for whom he worked as private secretary, a former chief executive

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Poemontages: 100 Years of French Poetry

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Poésie : Paul Valéry par Jean Vilar

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Poemontages: 100 Years of French Poetry (Petite anthologie de la poésie française moderne)

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Group Des Six (Le), Part 1 - Tailleferre, G. / Honegger, A. / Poulenc, P. / Durey, L. (Paris Conservatoire, Tzipine) (1954)

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100 Quotes by Paul Valéry

The Graveyard by the Sea (read by Elizabeth Fraser )

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100 Citas de Paul Valery (Colección 100 Citas de)

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