Paul Valéry (October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French author and poet of the Symbolist school. October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Poets are authors of poems. ... Symbolism, as a type and movement in poetry, emphasized non-structured internalized poetry that, for lack of better words, describe thoughts and feelings in disconnected ways and places, logic, formal structure, and descriptive reality in the back seat. ...

He was born in Sète, Hérault. Living in Paris from 1892 onwards, he produced nothing for a twenty-year period, eventually breaking his silence in 1917 with La Jeune Parque. His interests were broad, including mathematics, philosophy, art and music, all of which are reflected in the corpus of his work, which also included prose and drama. Valéry's monumental "Cahiers" — notebooks he wrote every morning for fifty years — have only in the last two decades received the philosophical attention they deserve. Hérault is a département in the southwest of France named after the Hérault River. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

He was member of the Académie française, Académie des sciences de Lisbonne and Front national des Ecrivains. He died in 1945 in Paris at age 74. The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Valéry's "Palme" inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem "Lost in Translation". poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ... James Merrills childhood home was a 50-room mansion called The Orchard, located in Southampton, New York Lost in Translation is a poem written in 1974 by James Merrill. ...