1.   As a student, he carried the works of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Alphonse de Lamartine and other French poets along with his medical texts.

2.   Her mother, Edith Whittemore, was American, and her father, Jacques Le Clercq, was a French poet and writer.

3.   Long before there were rock stars, there was rock star attitude, as displayed with spectacular insolence by the teen-age French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

4.   Ms. Leigh-Hunt was born in Paris, the daughter of the French poet and novelist Louise de Vilmorin and the American entrepreneur Henry Leigh-Hunt.

5.   This was an idea shared by the French poet Stephane Mallarme, who saw ballet as an art that invoked an ideal through abstraction.

6.   Alain Bosquet, a leading French poet, novelist and critic, dies of cancer in Paris.

7.   French poet and journalist Claude Roy, a prolific writer of humorous and optimistic prose and verse, died Saturday, the Culture Ministry said.

8.   French poet Yves Bonnefov was awarded Saturday the annual Grinzane Cavour literary prize.

9.   At the head of the company, she was to publish a number of prominent French poets, including Yves Bonnefoy and Henri Michaux.

10.   It was during those years that he devoured the works of African-American poets of the Harlem Renaissance, along with French poets such as Rimbaud, Mallarme and Baudelaire.