"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.
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