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Paul-Jean Toulet (5 June 1867, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques - 6 September 1920) was a French poet, novelist and feuilleton writer.

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Life and works

Paul-Jean Toulet was the son of a wealthy sugar planter, originally from Pau but living in Mauritius. He was most famous for his acerbic wit, his addiction to opium, and his friendship with Maurice Sailland - the "prince of gastronomes".

As a writer, Toulet is best known for Les Contrerimes, poems written in a verse form of his own invention, the rhyme scheme abba, with the lines alternating long, short, long, short. The collection was published posthumously, although many of the poems appeared in various literary magazines, either in earlier versions or finished forms (Toulet was an inveterate polisher of his verse).

His novels are almost unreadable today, with the possible exception of Mon amie Nane, a sort of fin-de-siècle equivalent to Pride and Prejudice , or even Bridget Jones' Diary.

Toulet became a model or an inspiration to the fantaisiste poetic movement from 1911 until the Great War. This explains the following comment made on the reception of his works: "When two men who have read Paul-Jean Toulet meet (usually in a bar), they immediately imagine it's a certain form of aristocracy".[1]

In 1897, Toulet received a copy of The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen from a friend and he translated it the following year, as Le Grand Dieu Pan. It was published in La Plume in 1901 but went unnoticed except for Maeterlinck's reaction "...combining the traditional and scientific fantastic genres, it hits both our memories and hopes". Toulet engaged a correspondence with Machen and visited him in London.

Toulet's own novel Monsieur de Paur, homme public was inspired by Machen. Published in 1898 by Simonis Empis, it saw little success. In 1918, however, it was published again by the Éditions du Divan. This publishing company was owned by Toulet's admirer Henri Martineau, who also engaged in a correspondence with the author.

Toulet died in Guéthary, Aquitaine, in September 1920.

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External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Paul-Jean Toulet.

• Works by Paul-Jean Toulet at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Paul-Jean Toulet at Internet Archive
• Les Contrerimes (e-text, in French)

На других языках

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[es] Paul-Jean Toulet

Paul-Jean Toulet (Pau, 5 de junio de 1867-Guéthary, 6 de septiembre de 1920) fue un poeta francés. También fue autor de obra narrativa, teatral y miscelánea. Debe su lugar en las letras francesas a su obra poética, reunida bajo el título de Les Contrerimes (1921).

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[fr] Paul-Jean Toulet

Paul-Jean Toulet, né à Pau (Basses-Pyrénées) le 5 juin 1867 et mort à Guéthary (Basses-Pyrénées) le 6 septembre 1920, est un écrivain et poète français, célèbre pour ses Contrerimes, une forme poétique qu'il a créée.

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[ru] Туле, Поль-Жан

Поль-Жан Туле́ (фр. Paul-Jean Toulet;5 июня 1867 — 6 сентября 1920) — французский писатель и поэт, знаменитый своими «Контрарифмами», поэтической формой, которую он сам создал.

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