Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
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Birth: | 16th July, 1855 |
Death: | 25th December, 1898 |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was born in Tournai, Belgium. He was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. He worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, and was an intimate of Edmond de Goncourt. He wrote several novels include: Bruges-la-Morte and The Bells of Bruges. He wrote several poems include: Le Foyer et les Champs, Les Tristesses, La Mer élégante, La Jeunesse blanche, The Reign of Silence, and The enclosed Lives.
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