Hérédia, José Maria de

Hérédia, José Maria de, French poet, born in Cuba of a wealthy house 22d November 1842, came in boyhood to France, where he was educated, and where with short intervals he subsequently lived. He printed occasional poems, sonnets, &c. for private circulation, and though a Spaniard born, he gradually came to be reckoned one of the most gifted and accomplished of French poets. A collection, Les Trophées, published in 1894, dealt largely with the Conquistadores. He was admitted to the Académie in 1895.