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See also:PAUL ARMAND See also:SILVESTRE (1837-1901)
, See also:French poet and conteur, was 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 See also:army, but in 187o he entered the See also:department of See also:finance
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He had a successful See also:official career, was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also: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 See also:verse include: Rimes neuves et vieilles (1866), to which See also:George See also:Sand wrote a See also: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 See also: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 See also:stage he wrote in many different See also:manners: Sapho (1881), a See also:drama; See also: |
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