Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author (died 1887)

Jules Laforgue

Franco-Uruguayan poet

Jules Laforgue 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…