ABOUT STEPHANE MALLARME
French symbolist poet whose best-known works include L'apres-midi d'un faune and Les Mots anglais.
He was born in Paris and lived an impoverished existence as an English teacher.
His poetry inspired composer Claude Debussy 's 1894 work "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune."
He wed Maria Christina Gerhard in 1863 and had a daughter named Stephanie.
He famously organized literary salons in Paris that were attended by W.B. Yeats and other prominent poets.
