REGNIER, IIENRI DE (1864—). A French poet. born in Hontleur (Calvados), and educated in Paris at the College Staid-las. The series of sonnets, entitled Sites ), which first brought the poet to public notice, were essential ly classic and correct. A new manner. new metres, and the sparing use of the rers libre in the volumes which immediately followed. marked him as a leader among the Symbolists or Deca dents and a pupil of Mallarme and Verlaine. In this period mention should be made of Episodes (1888). less personal or analytical than any pre ceding volume, and but little more than a series of voluptuously beautiful pictures; of nriens roman( sq low ( ISM) ) in which bolic meaning is given to many old stories; of Tcl qu'cn .some (18021. with its mystic and re flective fancy of double personality; and of -trefliuse (1893). his most finished work. on ad mixture of Hellenic myth and beauty with Cel tic melancholy. Lu Curb. ill( In its to the theme of the earlier poems with an a bled beauty of treatment. And in 11ign7h7s War!, le the poet returns to his earlier exactness of metre. In his Makin. La mune (L inspe I1895). Lc tn'ile Nan(' 11S991. and La Ale maitmsse (19001, he shows the same fondness for the unreal or for the chronologically and the same melodious eononand of In 1900 Regnier received the Vitet prize from the French Academy. llis ability as a was shown in his lectures to the American Cenle Franeais in 1960, and by an essay on Malhirme in the Revue de Pans for I sc..04.
REGNIER, .11–vrnuntx ( 1573-1613 ) . A French satirist, the nephew of Desportes, the poet. He was born at. Chartres, took orders as a youth. and went in 1593 as secretary with the Cardinal de Joyeuse to Rome. He returned in 1004, and in 1000 was made a canon in the Chartres Cathedral. He died in the prime of his talent. as the result of his excesses. His six teen satires include: Le goat decide de tout; L'honncur l'ennemi de to vie; L'amour qu'on 22C pent dompter; apologisle de lui-meme; La folio est gent'ralr; and Le maurais lieu. The ninth attacks Alalherbe. Dowden says: "His satires are those of a painter whose eye is on his object, and who handles his brush with a vigorous discretion; they are criticisms of so ciety, and its types of folly or of vice, fu]] of force and color, yet general in their intention, for, except at the poet who had affronted his uncle, he bon Regnier struck at no individual." The only work printed during the poet's life time was Satires et autres poesies de Mathurin Regnier (I608 and 1613). The best editions of his work are those of Viollet-le-Duc (1853). Barthelemy (1862). and Courbet (1809 and 1875). Consult Vianey, Mathurin Rcgnier (Paris, 1806).