Editing Tristan Corbière (section)

==Family and schooling==
His mother Marie-Angélique-Aspasie Puyo, 19 years old at the time of his birth, belonged to one of the most prominent families of the local bourgeoisie. His father was [[Édouard Corbière|Antoine-Édouard Corbière]], known for his best-selling novel ''Le Négrier''. A cousin, [[Constant Puyo]], was a well-known [[Pictorialism|Pictorialist]] photographer.

During his schooling at the Imperial [[Lycée]] of [[Saint-Brieuc]] where he studied from 1858 until 1860, he fell prey to a deep depression, and, over several freezing winters, contracted the severe [[rheumatism]] which was to disfigure him. He blamed his parents for having placed him there, far from his family's care and affection. Difficulties in adapting to the harsh discipline of the college's ''noble débris''<ref>Renzo Paris (ed) ''Corbière:Gli Amori gialli'', Milan 2004 p.vii</ref> (distinguished relics, i.e., teachers) gradually developed those characteristics of anarchic disdain and sarcasm which were to give much of his verse their distinctive voice.