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So I suppose I could be considered a Paulette manqué or even a Paulette maudit.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic David Finkle 2011
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No scented lavendar fool's cap for this bad boy—he was a true poete maudit, no MFA poseur.
Me and Lord Byron at Last Call Con Chapman 2012
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So I suppose I could be considered a Paulette manqué or even a Paulette maudit.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic David Finkle 2011
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So I suppose I could be considered a Paulette manqué or even a Paulette maudit.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic David Finkle 2011
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Both are examples of the poète maudit who lives outside normal conventions.
When You're Strange: Jim Morrison, Great American Poet? 2011
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So I suppose I could be considered a Paulette manqué or even a Paulette maudit.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic David Finkle 2011
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For two decades, Peeping Tom disappeared from distribution, becoming what Scorsese calls a film maudit literally, a cursed film, the fall-out of which all but ended Powell's career in the UK.
Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema' Mark Kermode 2010
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It might also prompt some reflections on the nature of conservatism, of journalism, and of our trade's equivalent of the poète maudit: the myth of the heroic but doomed scribbler.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2009
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It might also prompt some reflections on the nature of conservatism, of journalism, and of our trade's equivalent of the poète maudit: the myth of the heroic but doomed scribbler.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Edgar Allan Poe has become the image of the poète maudit, the blasted soul, the wanderer.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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