Régnier, Henri de
Régnier, Henri de (1864–1936),French writer. Once a leader of the symbolist movement, Régnier produced volumes of prose and poetry drawing upon a classical pantheon of nymphs, satyrs, and demigods. In Contes à soi‐même (Tales to oneself, 1894), his ‘Le Sixième Mariage de Barbe‐Bleue’ (‘Bluebeard's Sixth Marriage’) grafts a happy ending onto a dark legend. Régnier's novel Le Passé vivant (The Living Past, 1909) has been considered a fairy story, while collections like La Canne de jaspe (The Jasper Cane, 1897), and Histoires incertaines (Uncertain Tales, 1919) juxtapose naturalist detail with supernatural events.
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