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- Born:
- Feb. 20, 1791, Bourges, Fr.
- Died:
- April 23, 1871, Versailles (aged 80)
- Movement / Style:
- Romanticism
- Subjects Of Study:
- Romanticism
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Ămile Deschamps
French poet
Also known as: Ămile Deschamps de Saint-Amand
Ămile Deschamps (born Feb. 20, 1791, Bourges, Fr.âdied April 23, 1871, Versailles) was a poet prominent in the development of Romanticism.
Deschampsâs literary debut came in 1818, when, with Henri de Latouche, he produced two plays. Five years later, with Victor Hugo, he founded La Muse française, the journal of the Romantic, and the preface to his Ătudes françaises et Ă©trangĂšres (1828) formed a manifesto of the movement. His translations of Romeo and Juliet (1839) and Macbeth (1844), though never performed, were also important. He wrote several libretti, notably that for Berliozâ RomĂ©o et Juliette, and his prose works include Contes physiologiques (1854) and RĂ©alitĂ©s fantastiques (1854).
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