Édouard Dubus

Born in Beauvais in 1864 and dead in Paris in 1895, Édouard Dubus was a French poet, lawyer, and literary columnist associated with Symbolism and the broader decadent atmosphere of the late 19th century.

He is especially remembered as one of the cofounders of the third Mercure de France, an important review in French literary life. His best-known book published during his lifetime was Quand les violons sont partis (1892), and his poems were later gathered in a posthumous collected edition.

Dubus wrote with a refined, musical sensibility that suited the Symbolist taste for suggestion and mood. His career was brief, but his name remains tied to the intense small-review culture of his era and to a generation of writers who helped shape fin-de-siècle poetry in France.