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September 9, 1898
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (born 1842)
Stéphane Mallarmé
Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.