biography
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Delille, Jacques
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pseudonym Abbé Delille
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pronunciation:
[duhleel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1738–1813)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Aigueperse, C France. He became famous with his translation of Virgil's Les Géorgiques (1769), followed by L'Enéide (1804), and Milton's Le Paradis Perdu (1805). His own poems include Les Jardins (1782) and L'Homme des champs (1800). He was supported for a time by the Abbey of Saint-Séverin but was not, in fact, an abbot. He married and travelled to Germany, England, and Switzerland. |
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