1. Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
11 Facts About Sully Prudhomme
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Sully Prudhomme was interested in classic literature and mathematics in school.
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Sully Prudhomme considered entering the Dominican order, but decided against it.
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Sully Prudhomme attended the Lycee Bonaparte, but eye trouble interrupted his studies.
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Sully Prudhomme worked for a while in the Creusot region for the Schneider steel foundry, and then began studying law in a notary's office.
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Sully Prudhomme published more poetry before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Sully Prudhomme's philosophy was expressed in La Justice and Le Bonheur.
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Sully Prudhomme was elected to the Academie francaise in 1881.
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Sully Prudhomme published two important essays: L'Expression dans les beaux-arts and Reflexions sur l'art des vers, a series of articles on Blaise Pascal in La Revue des Deux Mondes, and an article on free will in the Revue de metaphysique et de morale.
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Sully Prudhomme founded, in 1902, the Societe des poetes francais with Jose-Maria de Heredia and Leon Dierx.
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Sully Prudhomme died suddenly on 6 September 1907, and was buried at Pere-Lachaise in Paris.