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Charles Morice
1861–1919
A lively voice in French Symbolism, he moved easily between poetry, criticism, and art writing. His work helped shape how readers understood the movement in its own time.
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Noa Noa
by Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice
About the author
Born in Saint-Étienne in 1860 and later active in Paris, Charles Morice was a French writer, poet, and essayist closely associated with the Symbolist movement. Sources describe him not just as a creative writer but as one of Symbolism’s energetic public advocates, with work that also touched criticism, lectures, and art history.
Morice wrote across genres and seems to have thrived in literary circles, where he was connected with major figures of the period. He is especially remembered for helping define and explain Symbolist ideas for a wider audience, which made him an important interpreter of the movement as well as a participant in it.
He died in Menton in 1919. Though he is less widely known today than some of his contemporaries, his reputation endures as that of a thoughtful, versatile man of letters who stood near the center of a major moment in modern French literature.