Aloysius Bertrand

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Aloysius Bertrand was a 19th-century French poet best known for pioneering the prose poem form in his collection "Gaspard de la nuit."

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Aloysius Bertrand canonical 4

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instanceOf human
poet
basedIn Dijon
Paris
birthName Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand
burialPlace Cimetière du Montparnasse
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1807-04-20
dateOfDeath 1841-04-29
ethnicOrigin French
father Louis Bertrand
gender male
genre poetry
prose poetry
hasPartInBibliography Gaspard de la nuit: Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot
linked to: Gaspard de la nuit
influenced Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
symbolist poets
influencedBy German Romanticism
medieval imagery
knownFor pioneering the prose poem form in French literature
languageOfWorkOrName French
literaryForm prose poem
mother Marie-Elisabeth Imbert
movement Romanticism
name Aloysius Bertrand
nationality French
notableFor innovative use of prose for lyrical and poetic effects
notableWork Gaspard de la nuit
occupation journalist
poet
writer
placeOfBirth Ceva
Piedmont
placeOfDeath Paris
pseudonym Aloysius Bertrand
regionOfActivity Burgundy
Île-de-France
style fantastic literature
romantic prose
workPublishedPosthumously Gaspard de la nuit

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Gaspard de la nuit basedOnAuthor Aloysius Bertrand
Aloysius Bertrand name Aloysius Bertrand
Aloysius Bertrand pseudonym Aloysius Bertrand