Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teofil ɡotje]; 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 remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde.
Ses yeux d'argent bruni roulent moelleusement.
Le caprice a taillé son petit nez charmant;
Sa bouche a des rougeurs de pêche et de framboise;
Ses mouvements sont pleins d'une grâce chinoise,
Et près d'elle on respire autour de sa beauté
Quelque chose de doux comme l'odeur du thé.