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Tristan Corbière
1845Jul, 18

Tristan Corbière

Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29.

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