Jules Laforgue

Jules Laforgue ( born August 16, 1860 in Montevideo, † August 20, 1887 in Paris) was a French poet. His works are counted to symbolism.

Life

Jules Laforgue was born in Montevideo, son of an immigrant family. At the age of six years, he returned to France, where he attended high school in Tarbes. After he failed several times during high school, he was on the recommendation of his friends Gustave Kahn, and Paul Bourget secretary of Charles Ephrussi, an art critic and collector. After the death of his father in 1881 he went to Berlin, where he was a narrator for the Empress Augusta, the wife of William I.. In 1886 he met an Englishwoman, Sarah Lee, whom he married soon after. Already ill, he returned to Paris, where he died in 1887 at the age of 27 years. He was a staff member of various magazines such as Gazette des Beaux -Arts, La Revue Indépendante Le Décadent, La Vogue, Le symboliste and La Vie Moderne.