Sully-Prudhomme, French poet, born in Paris; published a volume of poems in 1865 entitled “Stances and Poèmes,” which commanded instant regard, and have been succeeded by others which have deepened the impression, and entitled him to the highest rank as a poet; they give evidence of a serious mind occupied with serious problems; was elected to the Academy in 1881; (b. 1839).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of * Sulpicius Severus