Gautier, Pierre Jules Théophile

Gautier, Pierre Jules ThéophileGautier, Pierre Jules ThéophilePierre Jules Théophile Gautier (B * TARBES, 1811 – D † NEUILLY, 1872)Parnassian poet, at first strongly linked with Romanticism (Hugo et al.), he later became the forerunner of the full-fledged Parnassian movement. One of his close friends was the sensitive poet Gerard de Nerval (1808–1855). Gautier studied painting, believing that the best literature was strongly visual (presaging both Baudelaire and the Parnassians), with nothing…