Valéry

American  

[va-ley-ree] / va leɪˈri /

noun

1. Paul 1871–1945, French poet and philosopher.

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Valéry British  

/ valeri /

noun

1. Paul (pɔl). 1871–1945, French poet and essayist, influenced by the symbolists, esp Mallarmé. He wrote lyric poetry, rich in imagery, as in La Jeune Parque (1917) and Album de vers anciens 1890–1900 (1920)

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Example Sentences

It was there that his parents, Kurt and Helen Wolff, established Pantheon Books, which published Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and Paul Valéry, as well as the first English translation of the “I Ching.”

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

“This is a huge surprise, to be honest,” says astronomer and lead author of the new study Valéry Lainey, who studies the dynamics of Saturn’s moons at the Observatoire de Paris in France.

From National Geographic • Feb. 7, 2024

He joined the Socialist party in 1971, but both the left-wing François Mitterrand and the conservative Valéry Giscard d' Estaing asked him to join them three years later.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

The poet Paul Valéry noted that "a civilization has the same fragility as a life."

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2022

“To see,” the poet Paul Valéry once wrote, “is to forget the name of the things that one sees.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee