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RATISBONNE, See also:LOUIS GUSTAVE See also:FORTUNE (1827-1900) , See also:French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 29th of See also:July 1827. He studied at the school of his native See also:town and at the See also:College See also:Henry IV. in See also:Paris. He was connected with the See also:Journal See also:des Debats from 1853 to 1876; became librarian of the See also:palace of See also:Fontainebleau in 1871, and three years later to the See also:Senate. Louis Ratisbonne's most important See also:work was a See also:verse See also:translation of the 'Divina Commedia, in which the See also:original is rendered tercet by tercet into French. L'Enfer (1852) was crowned by the See also:Academy; Le Purgatoire (1857) and Le Paradis 1859) received the prix Bordin. He is also the author of some charming fables and verses for See also:children: La Comedie enfantine (186o), See also:Les Figures jeunes (1865) and others. He was See also:literary executor of See also:Alfred de See also:Vigny, whose Destinees (1864) and Journal d'un poete (1867) he published. Ratisbonne died in Paris on the 24th of See also:September 1900.

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