Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, was a French Symbolist poet and writer, who was born on the 7 of November 1838 in Brieuc, Britanny and died on the 19 of August 1889 from stomach cancer.
His family was a humble one and Villiers education troubled. He was seen very early as a genius: he composed music and poetry as a child. In 1850 he began traveling to Paris, where he meet his idol, Charles Baudelaire, who encouraged him to read the works of Edgar Allan Poe, who, along with Baudelaire, became the biggest influence in Villiers.
Villiers met Marie Dantine who in 1881 bore her son Victor.
In 1871, with the death of her aunt, Mlle. de Kerinou, Villiers lost his economic support and was left almost bankrupt. His fame began to grow in the 1880’s but his finances remained in the red. He was then diagnosed with stomach cancer and after a few years, he passed away, not without marrying Marie Dantine on his deathbed, thus legitimizing his son, Victor.
He is buried in Pére Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
He became famous for his work of 1886, L’Ève future, who greatly helped to popularize the term Android (Androïde in French, although the character is named “Andréide”)
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