Prince des poètes

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Prince des poètes (French: Prince of poets) is an honorific and unofficial title given in France to French-speaking poets of various nationalities.

Poets who have held the title include Pierre de Ronsard (16th century), Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1885–1894), Paul Verlaine (1894–1896), Stéphane Mallarmé (1896–1898), Léon Dierx (1898–1912), Paul Fort (1912–1960), Jules Supervielle (1960), Jean Cocteau (1960–1963), Maurice Carême (1972–1978), and Léopold Sédar Senghor (1978–2001).{{cite book |last1=Swift |first1=Bernard |title=The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French |date=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-866125-2 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198661252.001.0001/acref-9780198661252-e-4729 |language=en |chapter=Verlaine, Paul |quote=He gave public lectures in several countries, and on the death of Leconte de Lisle in 1894 he was elected ‘Prince des Poètes’.}}{{cite book |last1=Jack |first1=Belinda |title=The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French |date=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-866125-2 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198661252.001.0001/acref-9780198661252-e-1383 |language=en |chapter=Dierx, Léon |quote=In 1898 Dierx, who had left his native Reunion to become a civil servant in Paris, succeeded Mallarmé as ‘prince des poètes’.}}{{Additional citation needed|date=April 2025}}