What is Théophile Gautier?
{{Infobox person | name = Théophile Gautier | image = Théophil Gautier 1856 Nadar.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1811|8|30}} | birth_place = [[Tarbes]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1872|10|23|1811|8|30}} | death_place = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]] | occupation = Poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, literary critic | nationality = French }} '''Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier''' (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]], [[dramatist]], [[writer|novelist]], [[journalist]], and [[literature|literary critic]]. He was a member of the [[Club des Hashischins]], or Hashish Club. This group of French writers experimented with [[hashish]] to get ideas.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.credoreference.com/entry/sprmedanth/drug_use |title=Drug Use from Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures |first= |last= |work=credoreference.com |year=2011 |quote= |accessdate=15 May 2011}}</ref> Gautier wrote the 1841 ballet story for ''[[Giselle]]'' with [[Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Ballet}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gautier, Theophile}} [[Category:1811 births]] [[Category:1872 deaths]] [[Category:French poets]] [[Category:French journalists]] [[Category:French playwrights]] [[Category:French novelists]] [[Category:French literary critics]] [[Category:Librettists]] [[Category:Burials at Montmartre Cemetery, Paris]] [[Category:Writers from Occitanie]] [[Category:People from Hautes-Pyrénées]] [[Category:19th-century poets]] [[Category:19th-century novelists]] {{bio-stub}}