Scramble Gerard Nerval and You Have Vernal Regard
Have started rereading him via Penguin's Kindle version of his Best. Literary madness from a man who became mad. Or did he? Will post some highlights as I maunder through. * Gérard de Nerval ( French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval] ) (May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French poet , essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie , one of the most essentially Romantic French poets . Biography Two years after his birth in Paris , his mother died in Silesia while accompanying her husband, a military doctor, a member of Napoleon 's Grande Armée . He was brought up by his maternal great-uncle, Antoine Boucher, in the countryside of Valois at Mortefontaine . On the return of his father from war in 1814, he was sent back to Paris. He frequently returned to the countryside of Valois during holidays and later returned to it in imagination in his Chansons et légendes du Valois . His talent for translation was made manifest in his translation of Go...