Alphonse de Lamartine: Quick Facts


Facts

Born October 21, 1790 • Mâcon • France
Died February 28, 1869 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works “A Biographical Sketch” • “Histoire des Girondins” • “Jocelyn” • “La Chute d’un ange” • “Les Visions” • “Poetical Meditations” • “The Last Canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
Movement / Style Romanticism
Subjects Of Study France • civil rights • proletariat

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Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.
Marie-Joseph de Chénier
French author
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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
Andrieux, François
François Andrieux
French lawyer and dramatist
Déroulède, Paul
Paul Déroulède
French politician, poet, and dramatist
Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de
Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante
French statesman, historian, and author
Bainville, 1936
Jacques Bainville
French writer and historian
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
André Malraux
André Malraux
French novelist, art historian, and statesman
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
French politician, physician, and journalist
The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon
Marc Bloch
French historian
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
Jules Michelet
French historian
François Guizot
François Guizot
French politician and historian
Barnave, Antoine
Antoine Barnave
French politician
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Jacques-Auguste de Thou
French statesman and historian