MALLARME, Stephane
1842-1898

One of those charismatic literary figures of the kind that France produces so abundantly. Mallarme was a painter in words, whose own personal style was influenced by writers such as Baudelaire, Poe and the Parnassians. He met Manet in the circle of Nina de Callias in 1873 and defended him after the Salon jury rejected his pictures in 1874 and 1876. They collaborated on illustrated editions of The Raven by Poe in 1875, Mallarme's L'Apres-midi d'un faune in 1876 and the poems of Poe in 1881.