biography
pronunciation:
[duhrooled]
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| lived:
| (1846–1914)
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| biography:
| Poet, playwright, patriot, and politician, born in Paris, France. He enlisted in the French Army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, rose to the rank of lieutenant, but was forced into early retirement through an accident. His patriotic poems, Les Chants du soldat (1872), Les Nouveaux chants du soldat (1875), and Les Chants patriotiques (1882), were very popular. He was co-founder of the Ligue des Patriotes, whose purpose was to avenge the Prussian defeat of the French in 1870. Implicated in a plot against the Republic, he had to go into exile in Spain (1900–5). Apart from his patriotic poems he published several historical dramas, including Messire du Guesclin (1895). |
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