biography
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Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie-René
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pronunciation:
[luhkõt duh lee
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–94)
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| biography:
| French poet, born in Saint-Paul, La Réunion. After travels in India and the East he settled in Paris. He collaborated on the fouriériste review, La Democratie pacifique, from which he distanced himself, disappointed by the failure of the 1848 revolution. He wrote various collections of poetry which he eventually arranged to form Poèmes antiques (1852), Poèmes barbares (1862–78), Poèmes tragiques (1886), and Derniers poèmes (published 1895). He was a member of the anti-Romantic school called Parnassians, and succeeded Victor Hugo in the Académie Française in 1886. |
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