biography
pronunciation:
[keenay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–75)
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| biography:
| Poet, historian, and politician, born in Bourg-en-Bresse, E France. He studied at Strasbourg, Geneva, Paris, and Heidelberg. His first major work was a translation of Herder's Philosophy of History (1825), and his reputation was established with the epic poem Ahasvérus (1833). Appointed professor of foreign literature at Lyon (1839), his lectures caused so much excitement that the government suppressed them in 1846, and after the coup of February 1848 he was exiled. His historical works include La Révolution religieuse au XIXe siècle (1857, The Religious Revolution in the 19th-c), Histoire de la campagne de 1815 (1862, History of the 1815 Campaign), and La Révolution (1865). |
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