Comte de Lautréamont

Isidore Ducasse, who signed with the name comte de Lautréamont, was born in Montevideo in 1846, the son of an official of the French consulate. Sent to France for his studies, he attended the lycées of Tarbes and then of Pau. Settled in Paris in 1867, he lived in hotels in the centre, leaving no other trace of his days. In 1870 he still published, under his real name, two slim pamphlets of prose, and died in Paris on 24 November 1870, during the siege.

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• PoetryThe Songs of MaldororLes Chants de MaldororComte de Lautréamont · 1874LiteraturePublic domain