Stephan Mallarmé was born in Paris on the 18 of March 1842 and died in Valvin, Vulaines-Sur-Seine, on the 9 of September 1898.
He worked most of his life as an English teacher and lived in poverty, but he was famous because of his gatherings of intellectuals at his house to discuss about various subjects, like poetry, art and philosophy. They were known as Les Mardistes, because the meetings usually took place on a Tuesday (Mardi, in French). Some of his visitors were: W.B. Yeats, Rainier Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Stefan George, Paul Verlaine and many more.
His early work was inspired in the writings of the famous French poet, Charles Baudelaire, and his later work fusioned poetry and other arts, as well as the relationship between the poem and the way it was arranged on the page.
His poetry served as inspiration for many musical pieces of composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud and Pierre Boulez, as well as the famous visual artist Man Ray, whose last film was greatly inspired in Mallarmé’s work.
His work also inspired some of the most important artistic schools of the 20th Century, like Surrealism, Dadaism and Futurism.
On 10 August 1863, he married Maria Christina Gerhard. They had a daughter, (Stéphanie Françoise) Geneviève Mallarmé.
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