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French poet and man of letters (–)

Catulle Mendès (French pronunciation:[katylmɑ̃dɛs]; 22 May – 8 February ) was a French poet and man of letters.

Early life and career

Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux.^[1] After childhood and adolescence in Toulouse, he arrived in Paris in and quickly became one of the protégés of the poet Théophile Gautier.

He promptly attained notoriety with the publication in the La Revue fantaisiste () of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's imprisonment and a fine of francs.

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He was allied with Parnassianism from the beginning of the movement and displayed extraordinary metrical skill in his first volume of poems, Philoméla (). His critics have noted that the elegant verse of his later volumes is distinguished rather by dexterous imitation of different writers than by any marked originality.

The versatility and fecundity of Mendès' talent is shown in his critic