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Excerpt from Le Pater: Drame En Un Acte, En Vers; With Introduction and Notes
Tributed to the famous Parnasse contemporain, 1866, which made such a sensation at the time, was admitted to the friendship of the great Leconte de Lisle, to whom he dedicated his first volume of poems, le Reliquaire, which appeared in 1866, and became acquainted with his other master, Theodore de Banville. Intimités, one of his mas terpieces, appeared in 1868; Poemas modernes, including the celebrated Be'ne'diction and, later, la G'réve des Forge rons, in Nevertheless, he was not yet widely known; but in this same year he scored a great success at the Odéon Theatre with a little one-act piece, le Passant, after the style of Musset. Mlle. Agar established her reputation by the part of Silvia, and Sarah Bernhardt revealed her genius in that of Zanetto. So marked was the triumph that for a. Long time the fame of le Passant eclipsed the worth of coppée's other work. Princess Mathilde, who loved to surround herself with men of letters, artists, and scientists, invited Coppée to her.
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