Word: mallarme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unjustified obscurity of an oldster who is generally thought to have been dead a long time. He is in Mabel Dodge Luhan's memoirs and Arnold Bennett's diary. He knew Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Rodin and Harold Nicolson. Henry James was his friend, as was Mallarmé, Thomas Hardy and King Edward VII. Blanche knew the originals of most of Proust's characters, and Proust wrote an introduction to one of his books. Although he has known almost every prominent French and English writer since the days of Turgenev (and has painted portraits of most...
...France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French. By the time the scenery was paid for there was just enough money left to buy Poet Verlaine 30 drinks of absinthe. Painter Gauguin sold his pictures at auction, went to Tahiti anyway...
...lives in semi-retirement in London. His most recent book has a nostalgic flavor. It begins with a chapter on his first impressions of Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years ago with Arthur Symons into that remarkable artistic world inhabited by such figures as Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were then still alive, Zola and Anatole France were prominent figures, but the young Englishmen were most inspired by Verlaine, who greeted them jovially, talked poetry to them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink...