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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." –Paul Valery

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint- (Oct 30th, 1871- July 20th, 1945) Jules Valéry was born October 30th, 1871 was a French poet, writer, and philosopher.  He loved art, music, history, culture and the current trends during that age.   He had a broad range of interest.

Valéry was born in Sete, a small town in the Mediterranean coast, and raised in urban area of Montpellier. his father was of Corsica and he had a Genoese-Istrian mother.  At a university, he studied law and later lived in Paris for the rest of his years.  He was acquainted with Stephane Mallarme.  He After a traditional Roman Catholic education, he studied law at university, then resided in Paris for most of the remainder of his life, where he was, for a while, part of the circle of Stéphane Mallarmé.

In 1900, he married Jeannie Gobillard Stéphane Mallarmé's friend, relative of painter Berthe Morisot. Interestingly, his wedding was a double ceremony with his wife's cousin, Julie Manet, who married painter, Ernest Rouart.  Valéry and Gobillard had three children: Claude, Agathe, and François.