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- Isodore Lucien Ducasse was born on April 4, 1846 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Isodore Lucien was a writer, known for Maldoror (2001). Isodore Lucien died on November 24, 1870 in Paris, France.
- In late 1868, Ducasse published (anonymously and at his own expense) the first canto of Les Chants de Maldoror , a booklet of thirty-two pages.
- In his Poésies Lautréamont announced: "I will leave no memoirs", and as such, the life of the creator of Les Chants de Maldoror remains for the most part unknown.
- His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
- In 1863 he enrolled in the Lycée Louis-Barthou in Pau, where he attended classes in rhetoric and philosophy. He excelled at arithmetic and drawing and showed extravagance in his thinking and style.
- In October 1859, at the age of thirteen, he was sent to high school in France by his father. He was trained in French education and technology at the Imperial Lycée in Tarbes.
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