High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xavier Forneret (16 September 1809, Beaune, Côte-d'Or - 7 August 1884) was a French writer; poet, playwright and journalist. Born in Beaune in a rich bourgeois family, he was one of the few members of the Romantic movement who never experienced poverty and could afford to publish his books himself. In his hometown, he became an advocate of the new art. Between 1837 and 1840 he lived in Paris. Spiritually, he was a member of the Bouzingo, a group of poets which advocated a radical bohemian romanticism in life and art; contemporaries and kindred spirits included Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, yet the Cénacle in the de Doyenné Street never accepted him as a member, since the radical romantics saw him as an eccentric bourgeois with little talent.