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Henri Chantavoine
Henri Chantavoine (6 August 1850 – 25 August 1918) was a French writer and Professor of Rhetoric.
Chantavoine was born in Montpellier and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. After teaching in the provinces he moved, in 1876, to the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, and subsequently became Professor of Rhetoric at the Lycée Henri IV and "maître de conférences" at the École Normale at Sèvres. He was associated with the "Nouvelle Revue" from its foundation in 1879, and he joined the "Journal
of verse include:
- "Rimes neuves et vieilles" (1866), to which George Sand wrote a preface
- "Les Renaissances" (1870)
- "La Chanson des heures" (1878)
- "Le Chemin des étoiles" (1885), etc.
The poet was also a contributor to "Gil Blas" and other Parisian journals, distinguishing himself by the licence he permitted himself. To these "absences" from poetry, as Henri Chantavoine calls them, belong the seven