MARQUIS LOUIS DE FONTANES
\mɑːrkˈiː lˈuːi də fˈɒnte͡ɪnz], \mɑːrkˈiː lˈuːi də fˈɒnteɪnz], \m_ɑː_r_k_ˈiː l_ˈuː_i d_ə f_ˈɒ_n_t_eɪ_n_z]\
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A French poet and statesman; born at Niort, March 6, 1757; died March 17, 1821. Proscribed by the Revolution for editing papers opposed to the Terror, he fled to England, where he became intimate with Chateaubriand. Returning when it was safe, he attained high office under Napoleon and the restored Bourbons. He was a brilliant orator and also literary critic; and wrote several most graceful descriptive poems-among them "The Forest of Navarre" (1778); "The Carthusian Nun"; and "All-Souls" (1796), an imitation of Gray's "Elegy"-and a translation of Pope's "Essay on Man".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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