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Aloysius Bertrand

Born

in Ceva, Piedmont, France (now in Italy), Italy

April 20, 1807

Died

April 29, 1841

Genre

Poetry

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Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature, and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece is the collection of prose poems Gaspard de la Nuit published posthumously in 1842 (but probably mostly written already in 1827); though relatively ignored at the time, the book later had a huge influence on Charles Baudelaire's Spleen de Paris, the Symbolists and on the Surrealist movement. Three of its poems were adapted to an eponymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908. ...more

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	Gaspard de la Nuit by Aloysius Bertrand, T.E.D. Klein (Foreword), Donald Sidney-Fryer (Adapter) 3.76 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1842 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Flemish School, Old Paris, & Night & Its Spells 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Vie amoureuse de Louis XIV 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1929 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HISTOIRE DE NAPOLEON 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“No! God, flash blazing in the symbolic triangle, is not the number traced in the lips of human wisdom.”
― Louis Bertrand, Gaspard de la Nuit

tags: gaspard-de-la-nuit, louis-betrand

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“Ah, Monsieur, how much does being alone have charms for a poet! I would have been happy to live in the woods, and to have made no more noise there than the bird that quenches its thirst at a spring, than the bee that forages among the hawthorn flowers, than the acorn whose fall disturbs the sylvan bower!”
― Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la Nuit

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“There I was in quest of the Devil. I grew pale while pondering the magical books of Cornelius Agrippa, and I slit the throat on the black hen belonging to the schoolmaster, my cousin. There was no more Devil there than at the end of a rosary breathed out by some devout woman. Nevertheless, he does exist; of him Saint Augustine has, with his own pen, legitimized his description: Daemones sunt genere animalia, ingenio rationabilia, animo passiva, corpore aerea, tempore aeterna. That is a fact. The Devil exists. He speechifies in the House of Parliament, he pleads his cause in the Palace, he speculates in the Stock Exchange. They engrave him in vignettes, they emboss him in books of romance, they dress him up in dramas. We see him everywhere just as I see you. It is for him that we strip our beards of hair, that hand mirrors have been invented.”
― Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la Nuit

tags: devil, satan

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