[OEuvres, Paris, 1876; Mémoires, 1858.]

Millevoye page (252). Born at Abbeville.

[Poésies, annot. par Sainte-Beuve, Paris, 1872.]

Mme Desbordes-Valmore . Born at Douai.

Lamartine . Born at Mâcon. His early youth was passed in the country. One of the bodyguard of Louis XVIII. Méditations, 1819. Nouvelles Méditations, 1823. Travelled in Italy. Chargé d'Affaires at Florence. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, 1830. Member of Academy, 1830. Travelled in the East. Jocelyn, 1835. La Chute d'un Ange, 1838. Recueillements poétiques, 1839. Took a prominent part in the troubles of 1848.

Émile Deschamps . Fervent romanticist. Founded La Muse française; his essay La Guerre en temps de paix is an interesting criticism of the strife between the classics and romantics.

[Poésies complètes, 2 vols., Lemerre, Paris.]

Casimir Delavigne . Born at Havre. His first poems, Les Messéniennes, made him famous. He wrote many plays.

[OEuvres, 8 vols., Paris, 1833-1845.]

Alfred de Vigny . Born at Loches. Soldier. Published Poèmes antiques et modernes, 1826. Took part in the feud against classicism, but was rather an Egyptian ally of the romanticists. Translated Othello and The Merchant of Venice, wrote plays (Chatterton, 1835) and novels (Cinq-Mars, 1826). His last and finest poems, Les Destinées, were published in 1863, though many of them were printed in the Revue des Deux Mondes, more than fifteen years before this book appeared. The interesting Journal d'un Poète was published in 1867.

[Poésies, Delagrave, Paris.]

Hugo . Born at Besançon. His father was a general of the Empire. His early youth was passed in the house and garden of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques which he has written of in the Contemplations. The first Odes et Ballades appeared in 1822, when he was a fervent royalist of twenty; the second series followed in 1826, and the order of his subsequent volumes of lyric poetry is as follows: -- Les Orientales, 1829; Les Feuilles d'Automne, 1831; Les Chants du Crépuscule, 1835; Les Voix intérieures, 1837; Les Rayons et les Ombres, 1840. In 1841 he became a member of the Academy, and in 1845 was made a peer of France. At this time he took an

I i 2 active interest in politics; he was made a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1848, and of the Legislative Assembly in 1849. He protested against the coup d'État of December 2, 1851, and subsequently was compelled to leave France. He went first to Brussels, then to Jersey, and finally settled in Guernsey. Les Châtiments appeared in 1853; Les Contemplations, 1856; La Légende des Siècles, first series, 1859; Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois, 1865; L'Année terrible, 1872; La Légende des Siècles, second series, 1879; third series, 1883; Les Quatre Vents de l'Esprit, 1883. He returned to France when the Second Empire fell in 1870, and served in the national guard during the siege of Paris.

Brizeux . Born at Lorient. His family came from Ireland after the revolution of 1688.

Sainte-Beuve . Born at Boulogne-sur-Mer. He published three volumes of verse: Confessions de Joseph Delorme, 1827; Consolations, 1831; Pensées d'Août, 1837.

Arvers . Mes Heures perdues, Paris, 1833. He wrote comedies and vaudevilles, but he will be remembered only as the author of this beautiful sonnet.