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SOUMET, ALEXANDRE (1788-1845)

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SOUMET, ALEXANDRE (1788-1845)

SOUMET, See also:
ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)
ALEXANDRE (1788-1845) , See also:

French poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 8th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1788 at See also:

CASTELNAUDARY

Castelnaudary, See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

AUDE

Aude. His See also:

FATHER

father wished him to enter the See also:

army, but an See also:

early-See also:

DEVELOPED

developed love of See also:

POETRY

poetry turned the boy's ambition in other directions. He was an admirer of See also:

KLOPSTOCK, GOTTLIEB FRIEDRICH (1724–1803)

Klopstock and See also:

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller, then little known in See also:

France, and reproached Mme de See also:

STAEL, MADAME DE

Stael with lack of See also:

ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm for her subject in De l'Allemagne. Soumet came to See also:

Paris in 181o, and some poems in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon secured his nomination as auditor of the Conseil d'etat. His well-known See also:

ELEGY

elegy La Pauvre fille appeared in 1814, and two successful tragedies produced in 1822, Clytemnestre and Said, secured his See also:

ADMISSION

admission to the See also:

Academy in 1824. Jeanne d'Arc (1825) aroused See also:

GREAT

great enthusiasm, and was the best of his plays. Among his other pieces Elisabeth de France (1828), a weak See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of Schiller's See also:

Don See also:

Carlos, may be noted, but Soumet's real See also:

bent was towards epic poetry. His most considerable See also:

WORK

work is a poem inspired by Klopstock, La Divine epopee, which describes the descent of See also:

Christ into Hades. Under See also:

Louis XVIII. he became librarian of See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-See also:

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

Cloud, and subsequently was transferred to See also:

Rambouillet and to See also:

COMPIEGNE

Compiegne. He died on the 3oth of See also:

March 1845, leaving an unfinished epic on Jeanne d'Arc. His daughter Gabrielle (Mme Beauvain d'Altenheim) had collaborated with him in some of his later See also:

WORKS

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