Aloysius Bertrand

Louis Jacques Napolon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand , was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature, and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece is the collection of prose poems Gaspard de la Nuit published posthumously in 1842 three of its poems were adapted to a homonymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908.

Born in Ceva onApril 1807, Louis Jacques Napolon Bertrand was the son of Georges and Laure Bertrand, ne Davico. Georges Bertrand was born onJuly 1768 at SorcySaintMartin into a family of soldiers. A gendarmerie lieutenant, he married his second wife during his stay in the Department of Montenotte , Laure Davico , onJune 1806 in Ceva. After the birth of Louis, the eldest, in 1807, a second son, Jean Balthazar, was born onJuly 1808.

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