19 Facts About Saint-Pol-Roux

Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux, was a French Symbolist poet.

Saint-Pol-Roux was born to a middle-class family in Marseille, where his father was an industrialist.

Saint-Pol-Roux studied in a lycee in Lyon, and left it as Bachelor of Arts in 1880.

Saint-Pol-Roux left the south of France to install himself in Paris.

Saint-Pol-Roux particularly frequented the salon of Stephane Mallarme, for whom Saint-Pol-Roux had the greatest admiration.

Saint-Pol-Roux won a certain notoriety, trying out several pseudonyms before finally becoming "Saint-Pol-Roux le magnifique".

Nevertheless, he wrote nothing on the movement or on its founder although Saint-Pol-Roux seems to have been interested in this audacious literary experiment.

Saint-Pol-Roux transformed it into a manor in the Baroque style.

Saint-Pol-Roux wrote "Facing the sea, man is closer to God".

Saint-Pol-Roux was a member of the academie Mallarme from 1937 to 1940.

Saint-Pol-Roux killed the family's faithful governess Rose with several gun shots and wounded Saint-Pol-Roux's daughter Divine with a bullet.

Saint-Pol-Roux was wounded, but managed to survive the tragedy, as the German soldier fled, frightened by the house dog.

Saint-Pol-Roux was tried by the German court martial in Brest, sentenced to death and executed.

Saint-Pol-Roux was deeply affected by the death of Rose, the injuries of his daughter and the blows he had received.

Manuscripts of several works on which that Saint-Pol-Roux had been working for several years had been torn or burned.

Saint-Pol-Roux suffered an uremic crisis and was transported to the hospital in Brest on 13 October 1940.

Saint-Pol-Roux himself was therefore very interested in plays and operas during his Parisian years.

Saint-Pol-Roux desired an artistic fusion between the real world and the world of ideas in a Neoplatonic perspective.

Saint-Pol-Roux imagined a cosmology in which Beauty - lost in the real world - has to be revealed by the poet.