Jules Laforgue [SEP] date of death
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue (; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting "Luncheon of the Boating Party".
Life.
His parents, Charles-Benoît Laforgue and Pauline Lacollay, met in Uruguay where
poet Jules Laforgue. The latter, her last completed project, was published posthumously not long after her death as "Six Moral Tales from Jules Laforgue". In 1929, her collected letters were published as "Frances Newman Letters" with a preface by Cabell.
Newman was a satirical writer with an experimental streak, and a rare feminist voice in the Southern literature of her era. Cabell memorably described "the inexpressibly tired voice of Frances Newman speaking in shrewd malice very plaintively." Her novels are disguised morality tales or