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MOREAU, HEGESIPPE (18ro-1838)

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MOREAU, HEGESIPPE (18ro-1838) , See also:French lyric poet, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:April 18ro. In his See also:early youth his parents, who were poor, migrated to See also:Provins, where the See also:mother went into service and the See also:father took the See also:post of See also:usher in a public school. He went to Paris before 1830, and lived a Bohemian See also:life. He was habitually houseless, and exposed himself to the dangers of a See also:cholera See also:hospital in the See also:great epidemic of 1832 simply to obtain shelter and See also:food. Then he revisited Provins and published a See also:kind of satirical serial called Diogene. Some years of this life entirely ruined his See also:health, and it was only just before his See also:death that he succeeded in getting his collected poems published, selling the See also:copyright for £4 See also:sterling and 8o copies of the See also:book. This See also:volume, Myosotis, was received not unfavourably, but the author's death on the 20th of See also:December 1838, in a See also:refuge of the destitute, created an See also:interest in it which was proportionately excessive. Moreau's See also:work has a strong See also:note of See also:imitation, especially in his earlier songs, distinguished from those of his See also:model, See also:Beranger, chiefly by their elegiac note. Some of his poems, such as the See also:elegy La Voulsie (1837) and the charming See also:romance La Fermiere (1835), have great sweetness and show incontestable poetic See also:power.

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