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Paul Valery
| French poet, essayist, critic Date of Birth: Country: France |
Biography of Paul Valéry
Paul-Ambroise Valéry () was a French poet, essayist, and critic who aimed to create "mathematically pure" poetry that was free from traditional content, associations, and values.
He was born on October 30, , in the city of Sète on the Mediterranean coast of France.
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His father was Corsican, and his mother came from an ancient Genoese family.
Early Career and Literary Circles
Upon the advice of his friend, writer Pierre Louÿs, Valéry began publishing essays and poems in the symbolist style while still a student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Montpellier.
After moving to Paris, he served as a civil servant in the Ministry of War from to , and later as personal secretary to Édouard Lebey, the director of the Gavas agency. Valéry regularly attended literary gatherings, particularly those of Stéphane Mallarmé.
During this time, he worked on one of his most sign