CAZALIS, HENRI (1840-1909), French poet and man of letters, was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Seine-et-Oise). He wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor. His oriental habits of thought earned for him the title ot the "Hindou du Parnasse contemporain." His works include: Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865) ; Vita tristis, Reveries fantastiques, Romances sans musique (1865) ; Le Livre du neant (1872) ; Henry Regnault, sa vie et son oeuvre (1872) ; L'Illusion ; Melancholia (1878) ; Cantique des cantiques (1885) ; Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896) ; William Morris (1897). See a notice by P. Bourget in Anthologie des poetes fr. du XIX.e siecle (5887-88) ; J. Lemaitre, Les Contemporains (1889) ; E. Faguet in the Revue bleue (Oct. 1893).