Henri Guillemin
Contributor
LOCATION: Neuchatel, Switzerland
Professor of History of French Literature, University of Geneva, 1963–73. Author of Lamartine, l'homme et l'oeuvre; Lamartine en 1848; and others.
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Alphonse de Lamartine was a French poet, historian, and statesman who achieved renown for his lyrics in Méditations poétiques (1820), which established him as one of the key figures in the Romantic movement in French literature. In 1847 his Histoire des Girondins became widely popular, and he rose…
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