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GILBERT, See also:NICOLAS See also:JOSEPH See also:LAURENT (1751–1780) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at Fontenay-le-See also:Chateau in See also:Lorraine in 1751. Having completed his See also:education at the See also:college of See also:Dole, he devoted himself for a See also:time to a See also:half-scholastic, half-See also:literary See also:life at See also:Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the See also:capital. As an opponent of the Encyclopaedists and a panegyrist of See also:Louis XV., he received considerable See also:pensions. He died in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:November 1780 from the results of a fall from his See also:horse. The satiric force of one or two of his pieces, as Mon Apologie (1778) and Le See also:Dix-huitieme Siecle (1775), would alone be sufficient to preserve his reputation, which has been further increased by See also:modern writers, who, like See also:Alfred de See also:Vigny in his Stello (chaps. 7-13), considered him a victim to the spite of his philosophic opponents. His best-known verses are the See also:Ode imitee de plusieurs psaumes, usually entitled Adieux d la See also:vie. Among his other See also:works may be mentioned See also:Les Families de See also:Darius et d'Eridame, histoire persane (1770), Le Carnaval ties auteurs (1773), Odes nouvelles et patriotiques (1775). Gilbert's Euvres completes were first published in 1788, and they have since been edited by Mastrella (Paris, 1823), by See also:Charles See also:Nodier (1817 or 1825), and by M. de See also:Lescure (1882).

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