| Question 1: Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (French pronunciation: [pɔl valeʁi]; October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, ________, and philosopher. | |||
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| Question 2: Before la Jeune Parque, Valéry's only publications of note were dialogues, articles, some poems, and a study of ________. | |||
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| Question 3: However, he never said or wrote anything giving aid or comfort to any form of ________ popular during his lifetime. | |||
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| Question 4: Valéry was born of a Corsican father and Genoese mother in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault, but he was raised in ________, a larger urban center close by. | |||
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| Question 5: Valéry is best known as a poet, and he is sometimes considered to be the last of the French ________. | |||
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| Question 6: He represented France on cultural matters at the ________, and he served on several of its committees. | |||
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| Question 7: Valéry is currently considered a touchstone for those interested in ________, for instance, in Jean-Louis Le Moigne's description of constructivist history. | |||
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| Question 8: His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a ________. | |||
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| Question 9: Raymond Poincaré, Louis de Broglie, André Gide, Henri Bergson, and ________[citation needed] all respected Valéry's thinking and became friendly correspondents. | |||
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| Question 10: In 1900, he married Jeannie Gobillard, a friend of Stéphane Mallarmé's family, who was also a niece of the painter, ________. | |||
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