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LAPRADE, See also:PIERRE See also:MARTIN See also:VICTOR See also:RICHARD DE (1812–1883) , known as VICTOR DE LAPRADE, See also:French poet and critic, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:January 1812 at See also:Montbrison, in the See also:department of the See also:Loire. He came of a modest provincial See also:family. After completing his studies at See also:Lyons, he produced in 1839 a small See also:volume of religious See also:verse, See also:Les Parf urns de Madeleine. This was followed in 184o by La Colere de Jesus, in 1841 by the religious fantasy of See also:Psyche, and in 1844 by Odes et poemes. In 1845 Laprade visited See also:Italy on a See also:mission of See also:literary See also:research, and in 1847 he was appointed See also:professor of French literature at Lyons. The French See also:Academy, by a single See also:vote, preferred Emile See also:Augier at the See also:election in 1857, but in the following See also:year Laprade was chosen to fill the See also:chair of See also:Alfred de See also:Musset. In 1861 he was removed from his See also:post at Lyons owing to the publication of a See also:political See also:satire in verse (Les See also:Muses d'Etat), and in 1871 took his seat in the See also:National See also:Assembly on the benches of the Right. He died on the 13th of See also:December 1883. A statue has been raised by his See also:fellow-townsmen at Montbrison. Besides those named above, Laprade's poetical See also:works include Fames evangeliques (1852), Idylles heroiques (1858), Les Voix de silence (1864), Pernette (1868), Fames civiles (1873), Le Livre d'un pere (1877), See also:Varia and Livre See also:des adieux (1878–1879). In See also:prose he published, in 184o, Des habitudes intellectuelles de l'avocat. Questions d'See also:art et de morale appeared in 1861, succeeded by Le Sentiment de la nature, avant le Christianisme in 1866, and Chez les modernes in 1868, See also:Education liberale in 1873.

The material for these books had in some cases been printed earlier, after delivery as a lecture. He also contributed articles to the Revue des deux mondes and the Revue de See also:

Paris. No writer represents more perfectly than Laprade the admirable See also:genius of French provincial See also:life, its homely simplicity, its culture, its piety and its sober patriotism. As a poet he belongs to the school of See also:Chateaubriand and Lamartine. Devoted to the best classical See also:models, inspired by a sense of the ideal, and by See also:worship of nature as revealing the divine—gifted, too, with a full See also:faculty of expression—he lacked only See also:fire and See also:passion in the equipment of a romantic poet. But the want of these, and the pressure of a certain chilly facility and of a too conscious philosophizing have prevented him from reaching the first See also:rank, or from even attaining the popularity due to his high See also:place in the second. Only in. his patriotic verse did he shake himself clear from these trammels. Speaking generally, he possessed some of the qualities, and many of the defects, of the See also:English See also:Lake School. Laprade's prose criticisms must be ranked high. Apart from his classical and metaphysical studies, he was widely read in the literatures of See also:Europe, and built upon the groundwork of a naturally correct See also:taste. His dislike of See also:irony and See also:scepticism probably led him to underrate the product of the 18th See also:century, and there are signs of a too fastidious dread of Philistinism. But a See also:constant love of the best, a joy in nature and a lofty patriotism are not less evident than in his See also:poetry.

Few writers of any nation have fixed their minds so steadily on whatsoever things are pure, and lovely and of See also:

good See also:report. See also Edmond Bire, Victor de Laprade, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres.

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