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See also:DELAVIGNE, See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS CASIMIR (1793-1843) , See also:French poet and dramatist, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:April 1793 at See also:Havre. His See also:father sent him at an See also:early See also:age to See also:Paris, there to be educated at the Lycee See also:Napoleon. Constitutionally of an ardent and sympathetic temperament, he enlarged his outlook by extensive See also:miscellaneous See also:reading. On the loth of See also:March 1811 the empress See also:Marie See also:Louise gave See also:birth to a son, named in his very See also:cradle See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Rome. This event was celebrated by Delavigne in a Dithyrambs sur la naissance du roi de Rome, which secured for him a. See also:sinecure in the See also:revenue See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office.
About this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he competed twice for an See also:academy See also:prize, but without success. Delavigne, inspired by the See also:catastrophe of 1815, wrote two impassioned poems, the first entitled See also:Waterloo, the second, Devastation du See also:muses, both written in the See also:heat of patriotic See also:enthusiasm, and teeming with popular See also:political allusions. A third, but of inferior merit, Sur le besoin de s'unir apres le depart See also:des strangers, was afterwards added. These stirring pieces, termed by him Messeniennes, sounded a keynote which found an See also:echo in the See also:hearts of all. Twenty-five thousand copies were sold; Delavigne was famous. He was appointed to an honorary librarianship, with no duties to See also:discharge. In 1819 his See also:play See also:Les vepres Siciliennes was performed at the Odeon, then just rebuilt; it had previously been refused for the See also:Theatre See also:Francais. On the See also:night of the first See also:representation, which was warmly received, See also:Picard, the manager, threw himself into the arms of his elated friend, exclaiming, " You have saved us! You are the founder of the second French Theatre." This success was followed up by the See also:production of the Comediens (182o), a poor play, with little See also:plot, and the Paria (1821), with still less, but containing some well-written choruses. The latter piece cbtained a longer See also:lease of See also:life than its See also:intrinsic See also:literary merits warranted, on See also:account of the popularity of the political opinions freely expressed in it—so freely expressed, indeed, that the displeasure of the king was incurred, and Delavigne lost his See also:post. But See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe, See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, willing to gain the See also:people's See also:good wishes by complimenting their favourite, wrote to him as follows: " The See also:thunder has descended on your See also:house; I offer you an apartment in mine." Accordingly Delavigne became librarian at the Palais Royal, a position retained during the See also:remainder of his life. It was here that he wrote the Ecole des vieillards (1823), his best See also:comedy, which gained his See also:election to the Academy in 1825. To this See also:period also belong La Princesse Aurelie (1828), and See also:Marino See also:Faliero (1829), a See also:drama in the romantic See also:style.
For his success as a writer Delavigne was in no small measure indebted to the stirring nature of the times in which he lived. The Messeniennes, which first introduced him to universal See also:notice, had their origin in the excitement consequent on the occupation of See also:France by the See also:allies in 1815. Another crisis in his life and in the See also:history of his See also:country, the revolution of 183o, stimulated him to the production of a second masterpiece, La Parisienne. This See also:song, set to See also:music by See also:Auber, was on the lips of every Frenchman, and rivalled in popularity the Marseillaise. A See also:companion piece, La Varsovienne, was written for the Poles, by whom it was sung on the march to See also:battle. Other See also:works of Delavigne followed each other in rapid succession—Louis XI (1832), Les Enfants d'Edouard (1833), See also:Don Juan d'Autriche (1835), Une Famille au temps du See also:Luther (1836), La Popularite (1838), La Fille du See also:Cid (1839), Le Conseiller rapporteur (184o), and See also:Charles VI (1843), an See also:opera partly written by his See also:brother. In 1843 he quitted Paris to seek in See also:Italy the See also:health his labours had cost him. At See also:Lyons his strength altogether gave way, and he died on the 1th of See also:December.
By many of his own time Delavigne was looked upon as unsurpassed and unsurpassable. Every one bought and read. his works. But the b,pplause of the moment was gained at the See also:sacrifice of lasting fame. As a writer he had many excellences. He expressed himself in a terse and vigorous style. The poet of See also:reason rather than of See also:imagination, he recognized his own See also:province, and was rarely tempted to flights of See also:fancy beyond his See also:powers. He wrote always as he would have spoken, from sincere conviction. In private life he was in every way estimable,—upright, amiable, devoid of all See also:jealousy, and generous to a See also:fault.
His Poesies and his Thedtre were published in 1863. His CEuvres completes (new edition, 1855) contains a See also:biographical notice by his brother, Germain Delavigne, who is best known as a librettist in opera. See also Sainte-Beuve, Portraits litteraires, vol. v.; A. Favrot, Etude sur Casimir Delavigne (1894); and F. Vuacheux, Casimir Delavigne (1893).
End of Article: DELAVIGNE, JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR (1793-1843)
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