Paulin GAGNE

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Journalist, Poet, Lawyer, judge

FrenchBorn Étienne Paulin GAGNE

French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric

Born on June 9, 1808 in Montoison, Drôme , France

Died on August 22, 1876 in Paris , France

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His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians. ...   His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians.



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