Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset: Quick Facts

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Born	August 29, 1709 • Amiens • France
Died	June 16, 1777 (aged 67) • Amiens • France
Notable Works	“Le Méchant” • “Ver-Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot”

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Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles

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Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

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Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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