Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, comte de
(1838–1889)
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, comte deVilliers l'Isle-Adam, Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe AugusteJean-Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste Villiers l'Isle-Adam (B * SAINT-BRIEUC, 1838 – D † PARIS, 1889) Born into a humble family, he arrived in Paris in 1857 and immediately plunged into the literary world of Baudelaire, then the Parnassians, and finally the Symbolists. His parents, believing their son to be a genius, sold their meager possessions and took a single room in…