Valéry, Ambroise Toussaint Paul Jules
(1871–1945)
Valéry, Ambroise Toussaint Paul JulesValéry, Ambroise Toussaint Paul JulesAmbroise Toussaint Paul Jules Valéry (B * SÈTE, 1871 – D † PARIS, 1945) French poet, critic, essayist. When Valéry died, he was accorded the greatest national funeral since Victor Hugo. In the 1890s he wrote hermetic poems and elliptical essays exalting silence and experimental thought. At the age of 20, he wrote to Mallarme: »This is what I think, and here is what I wrote; which represents the truth?« In 1896, he took…