Armand Renaud (29 July 1836–15 October 1895) was a French

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Life

Renaud was born in

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. He worked as an official in the

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, where for a short time he was a colleague of Léon Valade, and afterwards in the prefecture of the department of the Seine, where he finally became an inspector of the fine arts (''inspecteur des beaux-arts''). He was a friend of

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools o ...

, who brought him into contact with the

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, among whom Renaud is now numbered. Renaud's poems, often influenced by Persian and Japanese poetry, were set to music by

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, , 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano ...

and

Reynaldo Hahn Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born ...

. He died in Paris and is buried in the

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Selected works

* ''Les poèmes de l'amour'' (1860) * ''La griffe rose'' (1862) * ''Caprices de boudoir'' (1864) * ''Les pensées tristes'' (1865) * ''Nuits persanes'' (1870) * ''Au bruit du canon'' (1871) * ''L'Héroïsme'' (1873) * ''Idylles japonaises'' (1880) * ''Recueil intime'' (1881) * ''Drames du peuple'' (1885)

Sources

*Catalogue Opale (BNF) * Carl A. Barbier: ''Documents Stéphane Mallarmé''. Nizet, Paris 1968/80 (7 vols; for Rebaud, esp. vol. 7)

External links

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1836 births 1895 deaths Writers from Versailles Local government officers French male poets 19th-century French poets 19th-century French male writers Burials at the Cimetière des Gonards {{France-poet-stub