Word: savants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alike by the provincial dreariness of Charleville and the tyranny of his mother. In a heavily underscored entry in his diary, he formulated his doctrine: the poet should be a revolutionary and antiChristian, a seer and a magician, "the great sufferer, the great criminal, the great damned-the supreme savant." This was to be achieved by "the systematic upheaval of all the senses." At 16, he fled to Paris...