“[Charles Brun] was so charming that I always write to him as "My dear Charlotte!"”

— Renée Vivien

Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)

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British poet who wrote in the French language 1877–1909

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