Barbier . Born in Paris. Ïambes (1830) brought him well-deserved fame. L'Adieu is from Il Pianto, 1833.

Nerval . Nerval wrote much prose: a record of travel in Germany and Holland; studies of Eastern life; several plays (Le Chariot d'Enfant, L'Imagier d'Harlem), and a collection of stories called Les Filles du feu. His translation of Faust is extremely fine. His life was unhappy; he committed suicide in 1855.

[Poésies complètes, Paris, 1877.]

Alfred de Musset . Born in Paris, educated at the Collège de Bourbon. His first book of poems, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie, appeared when he was twenty; during the next eleven years of his life he produced all his best work: the Nuits, the Lettre à Lamartine, Stances à la Malibran, Rolla, Une bonne Fortune, and most of the delightful prose Comédies et Proverbes, none of which were acted until Madame Allan produced Le Caprice in 1847, when they became extremely popular. La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle appeared in 1836.

[OEuvres complètes, 10 vols., Paris, 1865-86.]

271. Stances à la Malibran. Mme Malibran died in 1836.

272. Chanson de Fortunio. From Le Chandelier, act ii, sc. 3.

274. Chanson de Barberine. From Barberine, act iii, sc. 2.

Moreau . Born in Paris. Le Myosotis, poems; stood apart from the Romantic movement. Died in the Hôpital de la Charité, aged twenty-eight.

Gautier . Born at Tarbes. Studied painting. His first poems appeared in 1830. Albertus, 1832; Comédie de la Mort, 1838. His finest work is contained in España and Émaux et Camées, published respectively in 1841 and 1852.

Laprade . Born in Montbrison. Avocat at Lyons and professor of French literature. Published eight volumes of verse, a tragedy, and some studies in aesthetic.

Soulary . Born at Lyons.

[OEuvres poétiques, 3 vols., Lemerre, Paris.]

Leconte de Lisle . Born at St. Paul, èIle de Réunion. Came to Paris 1845. Poèmes antiques, 1852; Poèmes et Poésies, 1853; Poèmes barbares, 1862; Poèmes tragiques, 1884; Derniers Poèmes, 1895. Translated Homer, Hesiod, and some of the Greek tragedies. Les Érinnyes is an adaptation of the Eumenides of Aeschylus.

[The works of Leconte de Lisle are published by Lemerre, Paris.]

Baudelaire . Born in Paris. Translated the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Les Fleurs du Mal appeared in 1857; its alleged immorality resulted in a procès against the author. Petits Poèmes en Prose is, after Les Fleurs du Mal, his most noteworthy work.

[Les Fleurs du Mal. Calmann Lévy, 1900.]

Banville . Born at Moulins. Les Cariatides appeared when he was eighteen; Les Stalactites, 1846; Odelettes, 1846; Odes Funambulesques, 1857; Idylles Prussiennes, 1871, &c. He wrote a large quantity of verse, several comedies, and many Contes.

[Lemerre, Paris. Charpentier-Fasquelle, Paris.]