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5 unusual facts about Charles Cros


Charles Cros

His poem The Kippered Herring inspired Ernest Coquelin to create what he called monologues, short theatrical pieces whose format was copied by numerous imitators.The piece, translated as The Salt Herring, was translated and illustrated by Edward Gorey.

Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence

The inventor Charles Cros was convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus were the lights of large cities.

Isabelle Aboulker

Among her work for adults are two operas based on plays by Eugène Ionesco and settings of poems by Guillevic and Charles Cros.

Mercure de France

Vallette was closely linked to a group of writers associated with Symbolism who regularly met at the café la Mère Clarisse in Paris (rue Jacob), and which included: Jean Moréas, Émile Raynaud, Pierre Arène, Remy de Gourmont, Alfred Jarry, Albert Samain and Charles Cros.

Utocolor

It used the direct bleach-out method of color reproduction first proposed by Louis Ducos du Hauron and Charles Cros in the late 1860s and based on the fact that a substance can only be affected by exposure to light if it absorbs some of that light.


Paul Léautaud

::Volume I : Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Barbusse, Henry Bataille, André Castagnou, Jean Cocteau, Tristan Corbière, Guy-Charles Cros, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Tristan Derème, Charles Derennes, Emile Despax, Léon Deubel, Alfred Droin, Georges Duhamel, Édouard Dujardin, Max Elskamp, Fagus, André Fontainas, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Remy de Gourmont, Fernand Gregh, Charles Guérin.


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