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| Banville, Théodore de |
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(t dôr´ d bäNv l´) (KEY) , 182391, French poet. He was one of the group known as the Parnassians. His many volumes of verse, including Odes funambulesques (1857) and Les Exilés (1866), are characterized by expert technique. |
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