“Le bonheur est une petite chose que l'on grignote, assis par terre, au…” — Paul-Jean Toulet

“Le bonheur est une petite chose que l'on grignote, assis par terre, au soleil.”

Presenting happiness as modest, tangible and quietly savoured · Prose aphorism, commonly attributed to Paul-Jean Toulet

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About Paul-Jean Toulet

5 June 1867–6 September 1920

Paul-Jean Toulet was born on 5 June 1867 in Pau, in the Béarn region of southwestern France, and died on 6 September 1920 at Guéthary, on the Basque coast. He occupies a singular place in French literature: neither wholly Symbolist nor conventionally modernist, neither simply a Decadent aesthete nor merely a regional…

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