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Albert Samain

French poet (1858-1900) · 1858–1900

Appears in 2 videos · 3 passages, 1 of them in depth.

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Albert Victor Samain (3 April 1858 – 18 August 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school.

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Season 13 · 27 May 2025Flagrante Delights

11:50A forgotten fin-de-siècle poet; his poem on Versailles and the scent of boxwood serves as an olfactory epigraph.
1:18:44Quotation taken up again to show that the perfume was not so light after all.

Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 3. What is called modern music?

1:05:29Symbolist posterity of Mallarmé.