biography
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Guérin, (Georges-) Maurice de
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pronunciation:
[gayrĩ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–39)
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| biography:
| Romantic poet, born in the Château du Cayla, near Andillac, S France. Educated in Paris, he entered the community of Lamennais at Le Chesnay in Brittany (1831), but returned to Paris (1833) when Lamennais was condemned by the pope and the community dissolved. His early death from tuberculosis did not allow him to complete either of his major prose poems, La Bacchante and Le Centaure, which George Sand had edited. His Journal reveals a young Christian near to a mystical pantheism. A Guérin cult arose after his death, resulting in the publication of everything he had written, including personal letters. His adoring sister Eugénie (1805–48) lived in the family chateau, and did not leave it except for the marriage of her brother, who was a great influence on her, as revealed in her Journal et lettres (1862). |
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