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Laforgue

British  
/ lafɔrɡ /

noun

  1. Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Simon’s coach, Etienne Laforgue, tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in New York, and Simon was disqualified because he was deemed a “close contact.”

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2021

Electrified by what he read of Laforgue in Arthur Symons’s “The Symbolist Movement in Literature,” the Harvard undergrad ordered the French poet’s “Oeuvres complétes” from Paris.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2015

Eliot finally discovered his true voice when, in 1909, he happened upon the work of Jules Laforgue.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2015

His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is similar to another remark made to me once by Georges Laforgue, on an occasion when I had been extolling Julian to the skies.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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