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DESCHAMPS, SMILE (1791-1871)

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DESCHAMPS, SMILE (1791-1871) , See also:French poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Bourges on the 20th of See also:February 1.791. The son of a See also:civil servant, he adopted his See also:father's career, but as See also:early as 1812 he distinguished himself by an See also:ode, La Paix conquise, which won the praise of See also:Napoleon. In 1818 he collaborated with See also:Henri de See also:Latouche in two See also:verse comedies, Selmours de See also:Florian and Le Tour de faveur. He and his See also:brother were among the most enthusiastic disciples of the cenacle gathered See also:round See also:Victor See also:Hugo, and in See also:July 1823 Emile founded with- his See also:master the Muse Irancaise, which during the See also:year of its existence was the specialorgan of the romantic party. His Etudes francaises et l trangilres (1828) were preceded by a See also:preface which may be regarded as one of the manifestos of the romanticists. The versions of See also:Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1839) and of See also:Macbeth (1844), important as they were in the See also:history of the romantic See also:movement, were never staged. He was the author of several libretti, among which may be mentioned the Romeo e! Juliette of See also:Berlioz. The See also:list of his more important See also:works is completed by his two volumes of stories, Contes physiologiques (1854) and Realites fantastiques (1854). He died at See also:Versailles in See also:April 1871. His CEuvres completes were published in 1872-1874 (6 vols.). His brother, See also:Antoine See also:Francois See also:Marie, known as ANTONY DESCHAMPS, was born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:March 1800 and died at Passy on the 29th of See also:October 1869.

Like his brother, he was an ardent romanticist, but his See also:

production was limited by a See also:nervous disorder, which has See also:left its See also:mark on his See also:melancholy See also:work. He translated the Divina Commedia in 1829, and his poems, Dernieres Paroles and Resignation, were republished with his brother's, in 1841.

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