biography
| name: |
Desportes, Philippe
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pronunciation:
[daypaw(r)t]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1546–1606)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Chartres, NC France. He was an official poet of great reputation, belonging to the second generation of La Pléiade, who became a favourite of Henry III. His Sonnets amoureux were an imitation of Ludovico Ariosto. Other works include Stances et Elégies (1573) and Les Amours d'Hippolyte, whose gracious villanelle remains famous - ‘Rosette, pour un peu d'absence...’. In 1583 he received the abbeys of Tiron and Josaphat. |
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