Editing Sully Prudhomme (section)

==Early life==
Prudhomme's parents were M. Sully Prudhomme and Clotilde Caillat.  They had been engaged for 10 years before they had felt financially able to marry. When Prudhomme was two, his father, a shopkeeper, died.  His mother and he relocated to Prudhomme's uncle's house. Prudhomme joined his father's name "Sully" with his surname Prudhomme, becoming Sully-Prudhomme. He was interested in classic literature and mathematics in school. He also considered entering the Dominican order, but decided against it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/prudhomme-bio.html|title=Sully Prudhomme – Biographical|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=13 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.authorscalendar.info/prudhomm.htm | title=René Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907) - original name RENÉ FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240630025747/http://authorscalendar.info/prudhomm.htm | archive-date=30 June 2024 }}</ref>

Prudhomme attended the [[Lycée Condorcet|Lycée Bonaparte]], but eye trouble interrupted his studies. He worked for a while in the [[Le Creusot|Creusot]] region for the [[Schneider Electric|Schneider]] steel [[foundry]], and then began studying law in a notary's office. The favourable reception of his early poems by the ''Conférence La Bruyère'' (a student society) encouraged him to begin a literary career.