Sully Prudhomme suddenly on 6 September 1907, and was buried at Père-Lachaise in Paris. Sully Prudhomme René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but turned to philosophy and later to poetry; he declared it as his intention to create scientific poetry for modern times. In character sincere and melancholic, he was linked to the Parnassus school, although, at the same time, his work displays characteristics of its
French cruiser Sully "Sully" had a draft of and displaced . "Sully" had three propeller shafts, each powered by one vertical triple-expansion steam engine, which were rated at a total of . Twenty-four Belleville water-tube boilers provided steam for her engines. She had a designed speed of . She carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of . "Sully"s main armament consisted of two guns mounted in single-gun turrets fore and aft. Her intermediate armament was eight guns. Four of these were in single gun turrets on the sides of the ship and the other four were in