Paul Fort
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Jules-Jean-Paul Fort was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art. He also founded and edited t
Paul Fort 1922
Alfred Jarry
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Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi, often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the thea
Paul Fort
…reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art (1890–93). He also founded and edited the literary reviews Livre d'Art with Alfred Jarry and Vers et Prose (1905–14) with poet Guillaume Apollinaire, which published the work of Paul Valéry and other important Symbolist writers. Fort is…
Jarry in 1896
Alfred Jarry, Deux aspects de la marionnette original d'Ubu Roi, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre on 10 December 1896.
Jarry cycling in Corbeil in 1898.