Gautier
THEOPHILE, a French poet and prose writer; born in Tarbes, France, Aug. 31, 1811. He studied at the College Charlemagne, Paris, and at first tried painting, but turned to literature. " In verse he published: "Albertus" (1830); "Comedy of Death" (1832); "Enamels and Cameos" (1856); his best poetry; etc. Of novels and short stories he wrote "Young France" (1833); "Mademoiselle de Maupin" (1835); "Fortunio" (1838); "A Tear of the Devil" (1839); "Militona" (1847); "The Tiger's Skin" (1852); ; "Jettatura" (1857); "Captain Captain Fracasse" (1863) "Handsome Jenny" (1865); "Spirite" (1866); etc. For more than 30 years he contributed to the Paris newspapers criticisms on the theater and the salon. He wrote "Journey in Spain" (1843); "Zigzags" (1845); "Constantinople" (1854); "Journey in Russia" (1866); etc. "The Grotesque" (1844), on the writers of the 16th and 17th centuries; "Balzac" (1858); "Private Menagerie" (1869), biographical; "History of Romanticism" "(1872) "Liter- "Literary Portraits and Souvenirs" (1875); "The East" (1877), the last two being posthumous. He died in Paris, Oct 23, 1872.