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Catulle Mendès

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Catulle Mendès · Arts & Literature

What

Poet / lyricist

When

1841, Bordeaux, France — 1909, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Where

France

Biography

Catulle Mendès is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist

How & why

Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters, a founding figure of the Parnassian movement who launched La Revue fantaisiste and the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866) and displayed exceptional metrical skill from his first collection, Philoméla (1863). He was of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, born in Bordeaux.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists

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Poet / lyricist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists