Portrait of Théophile Gautier by Théodore Chassériau (Musée du Louvre) The family moved to Paris in 1814, taking up residence in the ancient Marais district. His father was Jean-Pierre Gautier, a fairly cultured minor government official, and his mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Cocard. Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département (southwestern France). He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( US: / ɡ oʊ ˈ t j eɪ/ goh- TYAY, French: 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
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