About Catulle Mendès
Abraham Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters. He was associated with the Parnassianist school. Catulle Mendès was a prominent figure in the Parnassian movement, known for his precise style and devotion to the aesthetic ideals that this movement established. Mendès also founded the literary journal Le Parnasse contemporain in 1866, which was the flagship anthology of the movement and helped popularize many other Parnassian writers. Mendès was one of the first and most prominent devoted French literary Wagnerians, who worked alongside Villiers de I'lsle-Adam to expose his work and establish it's exceptionality.
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