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Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (8 June 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric. His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians.

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  • Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (8 June 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric. His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians. (en)
  • Etienne Paulin Gagne, né à Montoison (Drôme) le 9 juin 1808 et mort à Paris 6e le 22 août 1876, est un avocat, journaliste et poète français. Auteur entre autres de L'Unitéide, poème en 60 actes et 25 000 vers où l'on « rencontre la plus bizarre agglomération de noms fantastiques et de vers saugrenus que puisse inventer le cerveau humain » et « candidat universel, perpétuel, surnaturel et inamovible » à toutes les élections, il figure parmi les fous littéraires recensés par Pierre Gustave Brunet, Raymond Queneau et André Blavier. (fr)
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  • Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (8 June 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric. His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians. (en)
  • Etienne Paulin Gagne, né à Montoison (Drôme) le 9 juin 1808 et mort à Paris 6e le 22 août 1876, est un avocat, journaliste et poète français. Auteur entre autres de L'Unitéide, poème en 60 actes et 25 000 vers où l'on « rencontre la plus bizarre agglomération de noms fantastiques et de vers saugrenus que puisse inventer le cerveau humain » et « candidat universel, perpétuel, surnaturel et inamovible » à toutes les élections, il figure parmi les fous littéraires recensés par Pierre Gustave Brunet, Raymond Queneau et André Blavier. (fr)
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