French poet Arthur Rimbaud is a hero, but she has also found inspiration in Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Claude Debussy, Herman Hesse, the Dadaists, William Blake and Jackson Pollock.

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In 1802, Victor Hugo, French poet and novelist, born.

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Rather than depicting a specific location, Ensor offers a telling amalgam and carnivalesque inversion of an entire genre that, as articulated by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, celebrated the spectacle of modern urban life.

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