Judith Gautier (25 August 1845,

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– 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer

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She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner during the late summer of 1876. She collaborated with

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, the famous novelist, in writing a play, ''La fille du ciel'' (1912; English, ''The Daughter of Heaven''), translated and produced under their personal supervision at the Century Theatre,

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. She was an Oriental scholar and her works dealt mainly with Chinese and Japanese themes. Her translations were among the earliest to bring Chinese and Japanese poetry to the attention of modern European poets. She was a member of the

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(1910–17).

Works

* ''Le livre de jade'' (Paris, 1867) (extended edition Paris, 1902) * ''Le Dragon Impérial'' (1869) * ''L'Usurpateur'' (1875) * ''Isoline et La Fleur-Serpent'' (1882) (translated by

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as '' Isoline and the Serpent-Flower'' (2013), ) * ''La Reine de Bangalore'' (1887) * ''Les Princesses d'Amours'' (Paris, 1900) * ''Le Collier des Jours'' (Paris, 1902) * ''Le Paravent: De Soie et D'Or'' (Paris, 1904) *''L’Avare Chinois'', an adaptation of a Yuan ''

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'' ''Khan thsian-nou'' by Zheng Tingyu (Paris, 1908)^:130 * ''Mémoires d'un Éléphant Blanc'' (''The Memoirs of a White Elephant''), illustrations by

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