In the novel, the courtesan's name is Marguerite Gautier ; in the opera, it is " Violetta Valéry ".

He entitled it " Shakespeare at the Funambules ", and in it Gautier summarized and analyzed an unnamed pantomime of unusually somber events: Pierrot murders an old-clothes man for garments to court a duchess, then is skewered in turn by the sword with which he stabbed the peddler when the latter's ghost lures him into a dance at his wedding.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

It is through Nerval that Gautier was introduced to Victor Hugo, by then already a well-known, established leading dramatist and author of Hernani.

Hugo became a major influence on Gautier and is credited for giving him, an aspiring painter at the time, an appetite for literature.

It was at the legendary premier of Hernani that Gautier is remembered for wearing his anachronistic red doublet.

Gautier was a celebrated abandonnée who yields or abandons himself to something of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of which is Giselle, whose first interpreter, the ballerina Carlotta Grisi, was the great love of his life.

It is through this review that Gautier publicized Art for art's sake doctrines through many editorials.

Although today Gautier is less well known as an art critic than his great contemporary, Baudelaire, he was more highly regarded by the painters of his time.

Having abandoned the idea that tragedy is the superior genre, Gautier was willing to accept comedy as the equal of tragedy.

* Poésies, published in 1830, is a collection of 42 poems that Gautier composed at the age of 18.

In this work, Gautier focuses on the theme of death, which for Gautier is a terrifying, stifling and irreversible finality.

* Émaux et Camées ( 1852 ), published when Gautier was touring the Middle East, is considered his supreme poetic achievement.

Gautier instead turned the plot into a simple love triangle between a man, d ' Albert, and his mistress, Rosette, who both fall in love with Madelaine de Maupin, who is disguised as a man named Théodore.

The novel represents a different era and is a project that Gautier had wanted to complete earlier in this youth.

In the steampunk 1990 novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, a character named Gautier is a clacker, a " hacker " of steam-powered computers capable of forging identities and sabotaging the Imperial Engines.

Gautier is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, along the Gulf of Mexico west of Pascagoula.

Gautier is a bedroom resort community with two championship golf courses, stately homes, and historic properties surrounded by bayous and wetlands on three sides.

The Gulf Coast region, of which Gautier is a part, has been considered a relatively high growth area of the State ; however, the loss of houses and jobs after Hurricane Katrina caused an outward migration in 2006.

The governmental structure of the City of Gautier is relatively young but the area has deep connections to the history of the gulf coast region.

Although the 2005 natural disaster slowed growth momentarily, the population of Gautier is expected to grow at a steady rate during the coming decades.

The socio-economic demographics of the city is similar to that of Jackson County in terms of income, age, gender and education, although Gautier has a higher rate of college-educated persons.

Gautier is located at ( 30. 381536 ,-88. 644169 ), along Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the West Pascagoula River.

The Jackson County Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is located in Gautier, as one of four campuses of the community college.

The first book on bridge engineering was written by Hubert Gautier in 1716.

As the Gautier citations suggest, Deburau early — about 1828 — caught the attention of the Romantics, and soon he was being celebrated in the reviews of Charles Nodier ( Gautier's praise would follow ), in an article by Charles Baudelaire on " The Essence of Laughter " ( 1855 ), and in the poetry of Théodore de Banville.

A pantomime produced at the Funambules in 1828, The Gold Dream, or Harlequin and the Miser, was widely thought to be the work of Nodier, and both Gautier and Banville wrote Pierrot playlets that were eventually produced on other stages — Posthumous Pierrot ( 1847 ) and The Kiss ( 1887 ), respectively.

Berlioz was on the verge of producing his most Romantic works — as were the writers Vigny, Dumas, Gautier and several others in attendance that night.

Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Gautier made his way back to Paris upon hearing of the Prussian advance on the capital.

Gautier spent the majority of his career as a journalist at La Presse and later on at Le Moniteur universel.

Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.

Because Gautier wrote so frequently on plays, he began to consider the nature of the plays and developed the criteria by which they should be judged.

* Mademoiselle de Maupin ( 1835 ) In September 1833, Gautier was solicited to write a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Mlle Maupin, who was a first-rate swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man.

Gautier on Dance.

Nijinsky died in a clinic in London on April 8, 1950 and was buried in London until 1953 when his body was moved to Montmartre Cemetery, Paris, France beside the graves of Gaétan Vestris, Théophile Gautier, and Emma Livry.

Acadian Pierre Gautier, son of Joseph-Nicolas Gautier, led Mi ’ kmaq warriors from Louisbourg on three raids against Halifax in 1757.

* Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

Théophile Gautier wrote a poem on the hand of the poet thief Lacenaire, severed after his execution for a double murder, presumably for future use as a hand of glory.

Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature, the most important of his numerous works on medieval subjects being a critical text ( Tours, 1872 ) with translation and introduction of the Chanson de Roland, and Les Épopées françaises ( 3 vols., 1866-1867 ; 2nd ed., 5 vols., 1878-1897, including a Bibliographie des chansons de geste ).

Having authored fifteen English language books on topics related to Indian politics and communalism, Elst is one of the western writers ( along with François Gautier ) to actively defend the Hindutva ideology.

Gautier de Montbéliard took regency over Cyprus on behalf of Hugh.