Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Portrait of a Lady" (1917), and
The Waste Land (1922).
Born on 16 August 1860 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Jules Laforgue was the second son of Charles and Pauline Lacolley Laforgue. Uruguay was a popular destination for many French immigrants during the nineteenth century, and the French community in Montevideo, recalled by many who lived there in idyllic terms, also produced the authors Lautréamont and Jules Supervielle. Charles Laforgue, who had come to South America from France as a child (as had his wife), was a shy and serious man with a decidedly intellectual and literary bent: he began his career as a schoolteacher, read Latin in his spare time, and named his first son Emile, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's eponymous hero; his second son, Jules, was named in tribute to Caesar. Following the failure of his school, Charles Laforgue became a highly successful clerk at the Duplessis Bank. When war broke out with Paraguay in 1865, he decided to send the family back to Europe, and at the end of 1866 Pauline and their five children set sail for France, where they eventually settled in Tarbes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
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