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See also: born in See also: Paris on the 18th of See also: April 1837
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He studied at the Ecole polytechnique with the intention of entering the army, but in 187o he entered the department of See also: finance
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He had a successful official career, was decorated with the See also: Legion of Honour in 1886, and in 1892 was made inspector of See also: fine arts
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Armand See also: Silvestre made his entry into literature as a poet, and was reckoned among the Parnassians
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His volumes of verse include: Rimes neuves et vieilles (1866), to which See also: George See also: Sand wrote a preface; See also: Les Renaissances (1870); La Chanson See also: des heures (1878); Le Chemin des etoiles (1885), &c
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The poet was also a contributor to Gil See also: Bias and other Parisian See also: journals, distinguishing himself by the licence he permitted himself
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To
' these " absences " from See also: poetry, as See also: Henri See also: Chantavoine calls them, belong the seven volumes of La See also: Vie pour See also: Tire (1881-1883), Conies pantagrueliques et galants (1884), Le Livre des joyeusete's (1884), Gauloiseries nouvelles (1888), &c
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For the stage he wrote in many different See also: manners: Sapho (1881), a drama; See also: Henry VIII (1883), with Leonce Detroyat,
See also: music by See also: Saint-Saens; and the Drames sacres (1893), religious pictures after 14th- and 15th-century See also: Italian painters, with music by Gounod
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An account of
his varied and somewhat incongruous production is hardly See also: complete without mention of his See also: art See also: criticism
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Le Nu au See also: Salon (1888-1892), in five volumes, with numerous illustrations, was followed by other volumes of the same type
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He died at;Toulouse on the 19th of See also: February 1901
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