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HENRI CAZALIS (1840-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI CAZALIS (1840-1909)  , French poet and man of letters, was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Seine-et-
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Oise) in 184o . He wrote under the pseudonyms of
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Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor . His
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works include: Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865); Vita tristis, Reveries fantastiques, Romances sans musique (1865); Le Livre du neant (1872); Henry Regnault, sa
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vie et son cruvre(1872); L'Illusion (1875—1893);
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Melancholia (1878); Cantique
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des cantiques (1885);
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Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896); William Morris (1897) . The author of the Livre du Want has a predilection for gloomy subjects and especially for pictures of
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death . His
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oriental habits of thought earned for him the title of the " Hindou du Parnasse conternporain." He died in
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July 1909 . See a
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notice by P . Bourget in Anthologie des pates fr. du XIX, siecle(1887—1888); J . Lemaitre, Les Contemporains (1889); E . Faguet in the Revue bleue (
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October 1893) .

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