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PARNY, EVARISTE DESIRE DE FORGES, VICOMTE DE (1753-1814)

PARNY, EVARISTE See also:
DESIRE
DESIRE DE FORGES, VICOMTE DE (1753-1814) , was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the Isle of See also:

Bourbon on the 6th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1753. He was sent to See also:

France at nine years old, was educated at See also:

RENNES

Rennes, and in 1771 entered the See also:

army. He was, however, shortly recalled' to the Isle of Bourbon, where he See also:

fell in love with a See also:

young See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady whom he addresses as Eleonore. Her See also:

FATHER

father refused to consent to her See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage with Parny, and she married some one else. Parny returned to France, and published his Poesies erotiques in 1778. He also published about the same See also:

time his Voyage de Bourgogne (1777), written in collaboration with his friend See also:

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine de See also:

BERTIN

Bertin (1752–1790); Epitre aux insurgents de See also:

Boston (1777), and Opuscules poetiques (1779). In 1796 appeared the Guerre See also:

des dieux, a poem in the See also:

style of See also:

VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire's Pucelle, directed against See also:

CHRISTIANITY

Christianity. Parny devoted himself in his later years almost entirely to the religious and See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque. He was elected to the See also:

Academy in 1803, and in 1813 received a See also:

PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension from See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon. In 18o5 he produced an extraordinary allegoric poem attacking See also:

George III., 1 See also:

Pope acknowledged the See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay with affectionate praise, but in 1720 he said it was written " upon such See also:

MEMOIRS

memoirs as I had collected," and later he complained of its defects, saying it had cost him more pains to revise than it would have done to write it.his See also:

FAMILY

family and his subjects, under the See also:

ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of " Goddam ! Goddam ! See also:

PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par un See also:

French-See also:

dog." Parny's See also:

early love poems and elegies, however, show a remarkable See also:

grace and ease, a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

DEAL

deal of tenderness, and considerable See also:

FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy and wit. One famous piece, the See also:

ELEGY

Elegy on a Young Girl, is scarcely to be excelled in its See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind.

Parny died in 1814. His Euvres choisies were published in 1827. There is a See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of Parny in Sainte-Beuve's Portraits contemporains.

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