Francisco de Paula Ney | |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1858 |
Birth Place: | Aracati, Ceará, Brazil |
Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Occupation: | Poet, journalist |
Nationality: | Brazilian |
Movement: | Parnassianism |
Francisco de Paula Ney (February 2, 1858 - November 13, 1897) was a Brazilian poet and journalist. A pre-eminent figure of the bohemian Rio de Janeiro of the Belle Époque, he was a friend of Coelho Neto, Aluísio Azevedo and Olavo Bilac. He was a poet famous for writing anonymous satires and jokes for the journals where he worked.