Théophile Gautier
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
Théophile Gautier photographed by Nadar
Portrait of Théophile Gautier by Théodore Chassériau (Musée du Louvre)
Gautier with Ernestina Grisi and their daughters Estelle and Judith. Photograph taken around 1857.
Gustave Boulanger, Théophile Gautier and Marie Favart in Roman costumes, 1861, a study for Boulanger's painting Répétition du "Joueur de flûte" et de "La femme de Diomède" chez le prince Napoléon
La Morte Amoureuse
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"La Morte amoureuse" is a short story written by Théophile Gautier and published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a bea
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…favourite historical era, that of Louis XIII. It is best described as a typical cloak-and-dagger fairy tale where everyone lives happily ever after. La Morte Amoureuse (1836) Classic tale of the supernatural in which a priest receives nocturnal visitations from a female vampire. Reprinted by Valde Books as Clarimonde…
!["Her head fell back, but she still wrapped her arms around me as if to hold me back." Etching by Eugène Decisy [fr] after a watercolor by Paul Albert](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/La_Morte_amoureuse_-_Sa_t%C3%AAte_retomba_en_arri%C3%A8re%2C_mais_elle_m%27entourait_toujours_de_ses_bras.jpg/500px-La_Morte_amoureuse_-_Sa_t%C3%AAte_retomba_en_arri%C3%A8re%2C_mais_elle_m%27entourait_toujours_de_ses_bras.jpg)
"Her head fell back, but she still wrapped her arms around me as if to hold me back." Etching by Eugène Decisy [fr] after a watercolor by Paul Albert Laurens, 1904.
"She dissipated into the air like smoke, and I saw her no more." Etching by Decisy after Laurens, 1904.
Romuald bitterly remembers his lost love.
Romuald thinks he sees the silhouette of Clarimonde in his garden.