11 September 2014

Léon Dierx, 17th arrondissement, Paris

'LÉON DIERX

POÈTE FRANÇAIS
NÉ À SAINT-DENIS
DE LA RÉUNION
LE 31 MARS 1858
MORT À PARIS
LE 12 JUIN 1912'

This monument by Léopold de Bony de Lavergne is in the Square des Batignolles. Dierx was a Parnassian poet and also a painter and is buried in Batignolles cemetery, the grave of which I made a post here.

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