biography
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Senancour, Étienne Pivert de
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pronunciation:
[suhnãkoor]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1770–1846)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France. After self-imposed exile in Switzerland in 1789 and an unhappy marriage, he returned to France in 1803 where he lived a private, lonely life writing for newspapers and reviews. His works include Résumé de l'histoire des traditions morales et religieuses (1825) which was considered blasphemous, but his chief work is Obermann (1804), the story of a frustrated and suffering recluse which greatly appealed to the Romantic school. |
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