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- Maeterlinck established himself in Paris in 1896 but later lived at Saint-Wandrille, an old Norman abbey that he had restored.
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Biography. Early life. Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium, to a wealthy, French-speaking family. His mother, Mathilde Colette Françoise (née Van den Bossche), came from a wealthy family. [8][9] His father, Polydore, was a notary who enjoyed tending the greenhouses on their property.
Maeterlinck established himself in Paris in 1896 but later lived at Saint-Wandrille, an old Norman abbey that he had restored. He was predominantly a writer of lyrical dramas, but his first work was a collection of poems entitled Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons].
Aug 25, 2024 · Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 for his outstanding works of the Symbolist theatre. He wrote in French and looked mainly to French literary movements for inspiration. Maeterlinck studied law at the University
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Maeterlinck’s personal life was marked by his deep interest in nature and the mystical aspects of life. He was an avid beekeeper and wrote extensively about bees, most notably in his book "The Life of the Bee" (La Vie des abeilles).
Life. As a young man, Maurice Maeterlink attended a Jesuit convent school and then studied law, as his parents wished. After a couple of years, he abandoned the legal track to become a writer and made his debut with the play La Princesse Maleine (1889).
Maeterlinck died on 6 May 1949 in his home in Nice. Born in Ghent on 29 August 1862, Maurice Maeterlinck was the eldest of three children in a Flemish, middle-class, Catholic, conservative and French-speaking family.
May 9, 2018 · Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian of Flemish descent who wrote in French and spent most of his life in France, had a powerful effect on the theatrical world of the late nineteenth century and was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.
