Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Maurice Maeterlinck across 4 places, from 1885 to 1949.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Maurice Maeterlinck is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Maurice Maeterlinck was documented, and when
1885year
University of Ghentattested“After gaining a law degree at the University of Ghent in 1885, he spent a few months in Paris, France.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1885year
Parisattested“After gaining a law degree at the University of Ghent in 1885, he spent a few months in Paris, France.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1895year
Parisattested“In 1895, with his parents frowning upon his open relationship with an actress, Maeterlinck and Leblanc moved to the district of Passy in Paris.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1906year
Grasseattested“In 1906, Maeterlinck and Leblanc moved to a villa in Grasse in the south of France.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1930year
Niceattested“In 1930, he bought a château in Nice, France, and named it Orlamonde, a name occurring in his work Quinze Chansons.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
Other places tied to Maurice Maeterlinck in the record
In each of these, a source puts Maurice Maeterlinck and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Maurice Maeterlinck was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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September 1874month
Jesuitmentioned“In September 1874, he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe, where works of the French Romantics were scorned and only plays on religious subjects were permitted.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1908year
Moscowmentioned“Stanislavsky's 1908 Moscow production, of extraordinary visual beauty, is still over a century later regularly performed in Moscow, in a shortened version as a children's matinee.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1918year
Nicementioned“While in Nice, he wrote The Mayor of Stilmonde (1918), which the American press quickly labeled a "Great War Play", and which became a British film in 1929.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1918year
Belgiummentioned“The Times quoted him as saying, "I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, The Mayor of Stilmonde, which dealt with the conditions in…”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1918year
Americamentioned“The Times quoted him as saying, "I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, The Mayor of Stilmonde, which dealt with the conditions in…”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
17 August 1939exact date
Portugalmentioned“While in Portugal, he stayed in Monte Estoril, at the Grande Hotel, between 27 July and 17 August 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
17 August 1939exact date
Monte Estorilmentioned“While in Portugal, he stayed in Monte Estoril, at the Grande Hotel, between 27 July and 17 August 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1940year
Lisbonmentioned“According to an article published in The New York Times in 1940, he arrived in the United States from Lisbon on the Greek Liner Nea Hellas.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
1940year
United Statesmentioned“According to an article published in The New York Times in 1940, he arrived in the United States from Lisbon on the Greek Liner Nea Hellas.”source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck
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