Banville, Etienne Claude Jean-Baptiste Théodore Faullain de
(1823–1891)
Banville, Etienne Claude Jean-Baptiste Théodore Faullain deBanville, Etienne Claude Jean-Baptiste Théodore FaullainEtienne Claude Jean-Baptiste Théodore Faullain Banville (B * MOULINS, 1823 – D † PARIS, 1891) French poet, dramatist, precursor of the Parnassians, contributor to their first revue Le Parnasse contemporain (1866). His poems are typically sentimental and ironic, with witty humor and great technical facility. In his Petit traité de poésie française (Little Treatise on French Poetry…