Banville was a central node of the second-generation Avant-Garde
network, the Parnassians in particular. He was a close friend of Gautier, Nerval, and other older
Romanticists, as well as his own younger generation including Baudelaire, Nadar, Mallarmé, Mendés, and many
others, especially the Romanticist historians/archivists Champfleury and
Charles Asselineau. Along with the latter two, he was at the forefront
of the community's historiographic efforts
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