Birth Chart
Jean Lorrain
Paul Duval
Sun Leo
Moon Cancer
Ascendant Aquarius
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Leo - 16°34' - in house 7
↣ Moon in Cancer - 13°34' - in house 6
↣ Mercury in Leo - 00°14' - in house 7
↣ Venus in Libra - 00°49' - in house 8
↣ Mars in Cancer - 15°36' - in house 6
↣ Jupiter in Aquarius - 29°08' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Gemini - 26°35' - in house 5
↣ Uranus in Taurus - 20°43' - in house 3
↣ Neptune in Pisces - 17°36' - in house 1/2 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Taurus - 04°41' - in house 2/3 - retrograde
↣ North Node in Taurus - 07°41' - in house 3 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Aquarius - 06°57' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Sagittarius - 04°40' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Pisces - 00°38'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 7
↣ Moon in house 6
↣ Mercury in house 7
↣ Venus in house 8
↣ Mars in house 6
↣ Jupiter in house 1
↣ Saturn in house 5
↣ Uranus in house 3
↣ Neptune in house 1/2
↣ Pluto in house 2/3
↣ North Node in house 3
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Uranus square (4°09' applying)
↣ Sun and Ascendant opposition (9°36' applying)
↣ Moon and Mars conjunction (2°03' applying)
↣ Moon and Neptune trine (4°03' applying)
↣ Moon and North Node sextile (5°52' separating)
↣ Mercury and Venus sextile (0°35' applying)
↣ Mercury and Pluto square (4°27' applying)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant opposition (6°43' separating)
↣ Mercury and Midheaven trine (4°26' separating) antiparallel
↣ Venus and Saturn square (4°15' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto parallel
↣ Venus and Ascendant trine (6°08' separating)
↣ Venus and Midheaven sextile (3°51' separating)
↣ Mars and Uranus sextile (5°06' applying)
↣ Mars and Neptune trine (2°00' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Saturn trine (2°33' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Pluto sextile (5°33' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (1°31' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven square (5°32' separating)
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant trine (4°04' separating)
↣ Uranus and Neptune sextile (3°06' separating)
↣ Uranus and Ascendant antiparallel
↣ Pluto and North Node conjunction (3°00' applying)
↣ Pluto and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (4°03' applying)
↣ Pluto and Ascendant square (2°16' separating)
↣ North Node and Ascendant square (0°44' applying)
Birth data
- Original name
- Paul Duval
- Chart date
- 09/08/1855
- Chart time
- 19:00
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record cited what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Fécamp, France - Latitude and longitude
- 49°45' North · 0°22' East
- Time zone
- 00:01 East
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Jean Lorrain, the pen name of Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a singular figure in Belle Époque French literature, known for his prolific work as a poet, novelist and columnist. Associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent aesthetic, he produced work characterized by a cutting style of language and an interest in the backstage world of vice and social transgression. His vitriolic columns and stories about vulgarity and pleasure scandalized his contemporaries and earned him wide journalistic notoriety.
The author of novels, short-story collections and plays, he achieved commercial success with the collection Sonyeuse and critical recognition with Monsieur de Phocas. A regular at Parisian salons and bohemian venues—from the Chat Noir to the literary magazines of the time—he had conflicted relationships with contemporaries such as Robert de Montesquiou and Guy de Maupassant, and friendships with figures like Edmond de Goncourt.
Lorrain’s public image was tied to the dandy and the provocative aesthete: he published cruel portraits, celebrated his homosexuality and cultivated a deliberately scandalous persona. His work influenced later writers and remains cited as a literary expression of fin de siècle France, although his private life, drug abuse and illness brought an early end to his career.
