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the Roman Empire. He denounced the myth of "racial purity" and argued that such purity, if it existed, would only lead to stagnation—thus the mixing of races was necessary for progress and cultural development. In "America as a Projection of the European Mind", Valéry remarked that whenever he despaired about Europe's situation, he could "restore some degree of hope only by thinking of the New World" and mused on the "happy variations" which could result from European "aesthetic ideas filtering into the powerful character of native Mexican art."
409:. However, he published fewer than a hundred poems, and none of them drew much attention. On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry underwent an existential crisis, an event that made a huge impact on his writing career. Eventually, around 1898, he quit writing altogether, publishing not a word for nearly twenty years. This hiatus was in part due to the death of his mentor, 1120: 156: 887:(1987), édition publiée sous la direction de Nicole Celeyrette-Pietri et Judith Robinson-Valéry avec la collaboration de Jean Celeyrette, Maria Teresa Giaveri, Paul Gifford, Jeannine Jallat, Bernard Lacorre, Huguette Laurenti, Florence de Lussy, Robert Pickering, Régine Pietra et Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt, tomes I-IX, Collection blanche, Gallimard 547:
insofar as he believed that state power and infringements on the individual should be severely limited. Although he had flirted with nationalist ideas during the 1890s, he moved away from them by 1899, and believed that European culture owed its greatness to the ethnic diversity and universalism of
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The poem is written in the first person, and is the soliloquy of a young woman contemplating life and death, engagement and withdrawal, love and estrangement, in a setting dominated by the sea, the sky, stars, rocky cliffs, and the rising sun. However, it is also possible to read the poem as an
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in 1925, Valéry became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving lectures on cultural and social issues as well as assuming a number of official positions eagerly offered to him by an admiring French nation. He represented France on cultural
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C’est ainsi que ces interrogations sur le savoir se nourrirent chez le poète de la fréquentation de l’univers scientifique : lecteur de Bergson, d’Einstein, de Louis de Broglie et Langevin, Paul Valéry devait devenir en 1935 membre de l’Académie des Sciences de Lisbonne.
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stripped him of some of these jobs and distinctions because of his quiet refusal to collaborate with Vichy and the German occupation, but Valéry continued, throughout these troubled years, to publish and to be active in French cultural life, especially as a member of the
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is from Valéry's Writing at the Yalu River (1895): "Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time".
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lines in rhyming couplets, had taken him four years to complete, and it immediately secured his fame. With "Le Cimetière marin" and "L'Ébauche d'un serpent," it is often considered one of the greatest French poems of the twentieth century.
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all respected Valéry's thinking and became friendly correspondents. Valéry was often asked to write articles on topics not of his choosing; the resulting intellectual journalism was collected in five volumes titled
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entries often were, surprisingly, reflections on science and mathematics. In fact, arcane topics in these domains appear to have commanded far more of his considered attention than his celebrated poetry. The
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Though his earliest publications date from his mid-twenties, Valéry did not become a full-time writer until 1920, when the man for whom he worked as private secretary, a former chief executive of the
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Valéry described his “true oeuvre” to be prose, and he filled more than 28,000 notebook pages over his lifetime. His far more ample prose writings, peppered with many aphorisms and
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allegory on the way fate moves human affairs or as an attempt to comprehend the horrific violence in Europe at the time of the poem's composition. The poem is not about
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education, he studied law at university and then resided in Paris for most of the remainder of his life, where he was, for a while, part of the circle of
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Valéry's technique is quite orthodox in its essentials. His verse rhymes and scans in conventional ways, and it has much in common with the work of
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have been published in their entirety only as photostatic reproductions, and only since 1980 have they begun to receive scholarly scrutiny. The
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Valéry died in Paris in July 1945. He is buried in the cemetery of his native town, Sète, the same cemetery celebrated in his famous poem
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II (1974), édition établie, présentée et annotée par Judith Robinson-Valéry, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade / nrf Gallimard
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He gave the keynote address at the 1932 German national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of
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II (1960), édition établie et annotée par Jean Hytier, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade / nrf Gallimard
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also contain the first drafts of many aphorisms he later included in his books. To date, the
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Valéry's most striking achievement is perhaps his monumental intellectual diary, called the
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Valéry is best known as a poet, and he is sometimes considered to be the last of the French
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The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation; it refers to the youngest of the three
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have been translated into English in five volumes published by Peter Lang with the title
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L'Esprit Créateur, (Johns Hopkins University Press), vol 20, no. 3, 1980, pp. 38–45
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In recent decades Valéry's thought has been considered a touchstone in the field of
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on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the
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intended to award Valéry the prize in 1945, had he not died that year.
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The Wind Rises: a flight into Hayao Miyazaki's magic and poetry
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Fonctions de l'esprit: treize savants redécouvrent Paul Valéry
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Research Guide on Intellectual Cooperation – Notable Members
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Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
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The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry
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Paul Valéry's Album de Vers Anciens – A Past Transfigured
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meditations on these matters, especially in the plays of
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This obscure, but sublimely musical, masterpiece, of 512
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La Jeune Parque, manuscrit, présentation, étude critique
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I (1957), édition établie et annotée par Jean Hytier,
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I (1973), édition établie, présentée et annotée par
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In 1900, he married Jeannine Gobillard, a friend of
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Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West
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There are, therefore, evident links with 216:, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the 1659: 1645: 1637: 1557:, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1993 1324:. Cambridge University Press. p. 237. 1290:. Cambridge University Press. p. 239. 659:A ce gout de périr qui prend la Pythonisse 31: 20: 1482:Valéry Finder: Metaphysics and Literature 1192:. Jewish Women's Archive, Michele Siegel. 999:, translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews 987:, translated by M. Cowley and J.R. Lawler 953:, translated by D. Paul and R. Fitzgerald 1540:, Presses universitaires de France, 1960 1005:, translated by R. Shattuck and F. Brown 1888:Academic staff of the Collège de France 1179:. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1987. 1150: 1139:Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III 1037:, ed. James R. Lawler (Princeton, 1977) 657:Je pense, sur le bord doré de l’univers 1505:, L'Herne, Essais et Philosophie, 2007 381:twelve times. It is believed that the 1322:Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind 1288:Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind 441:(the minor Roman deities also called 295:Committee on Intellectual Cooperation 171: 7: 1731:Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur 1564:, Éditions InterUniversitaires, 1996 1562:Un Souvenir d'enfance de Paul Valéry 273:news agency, Edouard Lebey, died of 165:Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry 50:Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry 1555:Paul Valéry, une Poétique en poèmes 1496:Paul Valéry, le sujet de l'écriture 1372:, 1995, PUF, " Que sais-je ? " 1370:Les épistémologies constructivistes 937:, selected and translated from the 1533:, Princeton University Press, 1983 1029:, translated by M. and J. Mathews. 297:. The English-language collection 14: 1923:Members of the Académie Française 1878:French people of Corsican descent 1616:Essay on Paul Valery's Aesthetics 1586:commente La Jeune Parque, Poésies 1526:, Le Club du Meilleur Livre, 1957 1484:, Kindle, 2011; CreateSpace, 2011 1477:, Kindle, 2010; CreateSpace, 2011 1416:(London). Retrieved 4 March 2014. 1301:Berman, Paul (19 December 2017). 985:Volume 8. Leonardo. Poe. Mallarḿé 417:, he was forty-six years of age. 1948:20th-century French male writers 1918:20th-century French philosophers 1873:French people of Italian descent 1406:Shone, Tom (21 February 2014). " 1118: 1009:Volume 12. Degas. Manet. Morisot 898:Selected Writings of Paul Valéry 671:Oscar-winning Japanese director 154: 1723:Pierre de Pardaillan de Gondrin 997:Volume 10. History and Politics 683:Japanese novel of the same name 306:Collège International de Cannes 1588:, Foliothèque, Gallimard, 2006 1337:Reflections on the World Today 1217:Zaman, Nasima (23 July 2011). 923:, series ed. Jackson Mathews ( 921:Collected Works of Paul Valéry 903:"Sketch of a Serpent", trans. 334:, he was also a member of the 258:Valéry served as a juror with 1: 1943:20th-century French essayists 991:Volume 9. Masters and Friends 727:La soirée avec monsieur Teste 622:, as noted, for instance, by 377:Valéry was nominated for the 336:Academy of Sciences of Lisbon 1538:Les dialogues de Paul Valéry 1041:The Outlook for Intelligence 959:, translated by W.M. Stewart 945:Volume 2. Poems in the Rough 340:Front national des Ecrivains 299:The Outlook for Intelligence 37:Paul Valéry photographed by 1599:Ressources sur Paul Valéry. 1339:. Pantheon. pp. 84–85. 1190:"Florence Meyer Blumenthal" 975:Volume 7. The Art of Poetry 971:, translated by J. Matthews 823:Mauvaises pensées et autres 787:Regards sur le monde actuel 620:constructivist epistemology 1969: 1715:Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette 1683:Auger de Moléon de Granier 1543:Jeanine Parisier Plottel, 1536:Jeanine Parisier-Plottel, 1519:, Fayard, 2008 (biography) 1468:Lecture de la Jeune Parque 1023:, translated by S. Gilbert 1017:, translated by R. Manheim 993:, translated by M. Turnell 925:Princeton University Press 851:Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 634:One of three epigraphs in 280:After his election to the 1677: 1382:McCarthy, Cormac (1985). 1266:Cleveland Review of Books 1219:"Remembering Paul Valéry" 1093:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1035:Paul Valery: An Anthology 933:, translated by D. Paul. 757:Eupalinos ou l’Architecte 715:Paradoxe sur l’architecte 379:Nobel Prize in Literature 368: 348: 328: 282: 260:Florence Meyer Blumenthal 190:Nobel Prize in Literature 153: 95: 30: 1577:Judith Robinson-Valéry, 1510:I Cahiers di Paul Valéry 1503:Valéry face à ses idoles 1491:, Plon, 1995 (biography) 1466:Sylvie Ballestra-Puech, 969:Volume 6. Monsieur Teste 947:, translated by H. Corke 687:The Graveyard by the Sea 521:'s celebrated 1974 poem 304:In 1931, he founded the 1512:, Bulzoni Editore, 1979 1011:, translated by D. Paul 965:, translated by D. Paul 220:, but he was raised in 192:in 12 different years. 1913:French epistemologists 1883:Lycée Condorcet alumni 1623:by UN Archives Geneva. 1568:Judith Robinson-Valéry 1489:Paul Valéry, 1871–1945 1354:'s website in French, 1320:Gifford, Paul (1998). 1286:Gifford, Paul (1998). 1159:"Nomination%20Archive" 900:(New Directions, 1964) 873:Judith Robinson-Valéry 739:Album des vers anciens 664: 487:Album des vers anciens 313:Johann Wolfgang Goethe 251:, married the painter 1933:French male essayists 1501:Emile Michel Cioran, 1335:Valéry, Paul (1948). 1015:Volume 13. Aesthetics 654: 200:Valéry was born to a 1811:Jean-Jacques Gautier 1771:Ferdinand de Lesseps 1627:Works by Paul Valéry 1426:"Le Cimetière marin" 1366:Jean-Louis Le Moigne 1003:Volume 11. 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Index

Paul Valéry photographed by Henri Manuel, 1920s.
Henri Manuel
Sète
Collège de France

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essayist
philosopher
aphorisms
Nobel Prize in Literature
Corsican
Genoese
Istrian
Sète
Hérault
Montpellier
Roman Catholic
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot
Julie Manet
Ernest Rouart
Florence Meyer Blumenthal
Prix Blumenthal
Havas
Parkinson's disease
Académie française
League of Nations
Committee on Intellectual Cooperation

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