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real name René François Armand Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and Nobel laureate, of the Parnassian school. He was born in Paris and trained in engineering, law, and philosophy. His early poems, such as Stances et poèmes (1865), Les destins (1872; The Destinies), and Les vaines tendresses (1875; The Empty Endearments), are lyrical and sad. Later work was Parnassian in its antiromantic striving for aesthetic, objective expression of philosophical truth. “La justice” (1878) and “Le bonheur” (1888; Happiness) are considered masterpieces of analytic subtlety. He was admitted to the French Academy in 1881 and received the first Nobel Prize in literature in 1901.
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NOBEL PRIZES,
NOBEL PRIZES,. awards granted annually to persons or institutions for outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, international peace, and economics. The prizes, except for the economics award, are awarded
ENCYCLOPEDIA: SULLY PRUDHOMME,
ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Alfred B. Nobel Prize Winners,
1901-2004
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