Léon Dierx, 17th arrondissement, Paris

'LÉON DIERX

POÈTE FRANÇAIS

NÉ À SAINT-DENIS

DE LA RÉUNION

LE 31 MARS 1858

MORT À PARIS

LE 12 JUIN 1912'

This monument by Léopold de Bony de Lavergne is in the Square des Batignolles. Dierx was a Parnassian poet and also a painter and is buried in Batignolles cemetery, the grave of which I made a post here.

Léon Dierx: Cimetière des Batignolles #2

 

Parnassian poet and painter Léon Dierx (1838–1912) was born in Saint-Denis in La Réunion, where there is a museum in the town of his birth.

 

 'LES LÈVRES CLOSES'

 

'LES AMANTS'

Leconte de Lisle in the 6th arrondissement, Paris

64 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris.

'EN CETTE MAISON
DE 1872 À SA MORT
HABITA LE POÈTE
LECONTE DE LISLE
NÉ À RÉUNION
1818 – 1894

Ô LIBERTÉ, JUSTICE, Ô PASSION DU BEAU
DITES-NOUS QUE VOTRE HEURE EST AU BOUT DE L'ÉPREUVE

Dédié par ses admirateurs'

Leconte de Lisle – a major figure in the Parnassian movement – was born in Saint-Paul, La Réunion, then called Île Bourbon, and died in Voisins, Yvelines. The poetical lines are taken from his Poèmes antiques (1852).