Wilhelm Ténint (20 May 1817,

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– 26 April 1879,

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) was a minor French Romantic writer. He was a fervent admirer of

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and of the "modern school" of Romantic literature. He published in Parisian literary journals such as '' La Presse'', and was a member of the Société des gens de lettres. In 1844, he published a handbook for and defense of Romantic prosody titled ''Prosodie de l'école moderne'', which had a brief introduction by Hugo and a longer introduction by Emile Deschamps. Ténint's handbook mistakenly claimed that the unique, nonce structure of

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's 1574 "Villanelle" was an old French form akin to

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; the poet

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subsequently "revived" this "Renaissance form," thus helping to create the modern 19-line poetic form called the

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. Ténint was placed under house arrest for

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in 1851 and thereafter left France for

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, where he translated

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works into French.

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