Paulin Gagne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paulin Gagne

French poet

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1808

Place of Birth: Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1876

Profession: lawyer, poet, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (June 8, 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric whose best known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language.
The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes.
He is also notable for proposing "Anthropophagy" at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians.



Alternative names	legal name: Charles Albert d'Arnoux (Charles Constant Albert Nicolas d'Arnoux de Limoges Saint-Saens)
Description	French illustrator, cartoonist and engraver
Date of birth/death	18 December 1820	24 March 1882
Location of birth/death	Paris	Soyons
Authority control	: Q528753 VIAF: 68925464 ISNI: 0000 0001 2281 2550 ULAN: 500001672 LCCN: n83001791 NLA: 36574893 WorldCat