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Key facts
- Born
- Édouard-Joachim Corbière , ( 1845-07-18 ) 18 July 1845, Morlaix , Brittany , France
- Died
- 1 March 1875 (1875-03-01) (aged 29), Morlaix, Brittany, France
- Occupation
- Poet
- Genre
- Poetry
- Literary movement
- Symbolism
- Notable works
- Les Amours jaunes
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joachim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Morlaix
- Place of death
- Morlaix
- Father
- Édouard Corbière
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Movement
- Symbolism
- Image
- Tristan Corbiere portrait.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tristan Corbière
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1845-07-18
- date of death
- 1875-03-01
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- birth name
- Édouard-Joachim Corbière
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Tristan Corbière
- ethnic group
- French
- writing language
- French
- place of burial
- Morlaix
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- Tom Wilkes
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Encyclopedic overview
Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the "cursed poet".
He is the author of a single collection of poetry, Les Amours jaunes, and of a few prose pieces. He led a mostly marginal and miserable life, nourished by two major failures due to his bone disease and his "ugliness" which he enjoyed accusing: the first is his sentimental life (he only loved one woman, called "Marcelle" in his work), and the second being his passion for the sea (he dreamt of becoming a sailor, like his father, Édouard Corbière). His poetry carries these two great wounds which led him to adopt a very cynical and incisive style, towards himself as much towards the life and world around him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tristan Corbière” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.