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| | Gérard de Nerval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Gérard de Nerval (May 22, 1808 ⓠJanuary 26, 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, the most essentially Romantic among French poets. |
 | | In the 1820s at college he became lifelong friends with Théophile Gautier and later joined Alexandre Dumas in the Petit Cénacle, in what was an exceedingly bohemian set, which was ultimately to become the Club des Hashischins. |
 | | A series of novellas, collected as Les Illuminés, ou les precurseurs du socialisme (1852), on themes suggested by the careers of Rétif de la Bretonne, Cagliostro and others, he gave shape to feelings that followed his third attack of insanity. |
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