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Leconte de Lyle's views on religion and their influence on Maximiliani's worldview.
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Leconte de Lyle rejected Christianity and praised the stoical heroism of barbarian and exotic peoples in his famous poem cycle Barberes. His views on life's fragility and the vanity of existence were later echoed by Maximiliani, who formed her own fatalistic worldview through her romantic poems about paganism and heroic action.

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