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.

Léon Dierx: Cimetière des Batignolles #2

 

Parnassian poet and painter Léon Dierx (1838–1912) was born in Saint-Denis in La Réunion, where there is a museum in the town of his birth.

 

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