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Théodore de Banville

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Théodore Faullain de Banville (14 March 1823 – 13 March 1891) was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century.

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  • Jeune homme sans mèlancolie,
    Blond comme un soleil d’Italie,
    Garde bien ta belle folie.
    • Young man, without melancholy, blond as the sun in Italy, cherish your fine folly.
    • «À Adolphe Gaïffe», in Odelettes, 2nd ed. (1856), p. 32
    • Tr. P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (London: Abacus, 1993), p. 159
  • Nous n'irons plus aux bois, les lauriers sont coupés.
    • We go to the woods no more, the laurels are cut down.
    • [Untitled], in Les Cariatides, new ed. (1864), p. 209
    • Tr. Eli Siegel, Hail, American Development (New York: Definition Press, 1968), p. 90
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