Villiers de l'Isle Adam

(French vilje də lil adɑ̃)

(Biography) August, Comte de (oɡyst, kɔ̃t də). 1838–89, French poet and dramatist; pioneer of the symbolist movement. His works include Contes cruels (1883) and the play Axel (1885)

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He lent them willingly; and Philip became acquainted with Flaubert and Balzac, with Verlaine, Heredia, and Villiers de l'Isle Adam. They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique.

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The product of more than ten years, it is, to be precise, three: firstly, an account of the guise in which cinema-in its earliest incarnation as 'animated photography'--appeared to a number of writers, such as Villiers de l'Isle Adam, H.

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