Henri Chantavoine was a French

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 writer

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He was born in Montpellier

Montpellier

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 and educated at the École Normale Supérieure

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. After teaching in the provinces he moved, in 1876, to the Lycée Charlemagne

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 in Paris

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, and subsequently became Professor of Rhetoric at the Lycée Henri IV

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 and maître de conférences at the École Normale at Sèvres

Sèvres

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. He was associated with the Nouvelle Revue from its foundation in 1879, and he joined the Journal des débats

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in 1884. His poems include Poèmes sincères (1877), Satires contemporaines (1881), Ad memoriam (1884), and Au fil des jours (1889).

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