Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790-1869) was one of the first French romantic poets. A diplomat as well, he led the provisional government of the Second Republic in 1848.Alphonse de Lamartine was...
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With Alphonse de Lamartine, says Louis Cazamian, "there begins an age when a normal feature of French literature is its genuinely poetic vein." In charming, often compelling prose, Jean-Jacques Rousse...
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