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Each year, in the spring and sometimes in the winter, one used to meet a perfect English gentleman in Paris. He used to lead in Paris the life which Monsieur Paul Bourget,1 for instance, might lead in London, frequenting artists, and showing himself in salons and fashionable restaurants in the company of the leaders of mundane society; seeking in one word all things which can interest a man who knows how to think, and who knows how to live.
Extracted from ‘Souvenirs sur Oscar Wilde’, Figures et caractères (Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1901) pp. 201–7.
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Notes
Paul Bourget (1852–1935), French novelist and critic. In Paris, Wilde often dined with Bourget, who admired him greatly. Wilde’s Intentions descends in a direct line from Bourget’s Dialogues Esthétiques.
Auguste Maurice Barrés (1862–1923), French writer and politician.
Jean Moréas (1856–1910), Greek poet who settled in Paris.
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de Régnier, H. (1979). Recollections of Oscar Wilde. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_60
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