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See also:JOSEPH See also:AUTRAN (1813-1877)
, See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Marseilles on the loth of See also:June 1813
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In 1832 he addressed an See also:ode to Lamartine, who was then at Marseilles on his way to the See also:East
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The See also:elder poet persuaded the See also:young See also:man's See also:father to allow him to follow his poetic See also:bent, and See also:Autran remained from that See also:time a faithful See also:disciple of Lamartine
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His best known See also:work is La Mer (1835), remodelled in 1852 as See also:Les Poemes de la mer
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Ludibria ventis (1838) followed, and the success of these two volumes gained for Autran the librarianship of his native See also:town
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His other most important work is his See also:Vie rurale (1856), a See also:series of pictures of See also:peasant See also:life
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The Algerian See also:campaigns inspired him with verses in See also:honour of the See also:common soldier
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Milianah (1842) describes the heroic See also:defence of that town, and in the same vein is his Laboureurs et soldats (1854)
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Among his other See also:works are the Paroles de Salomon (,868), Epitres rustiques (1861), Sonnets capricieux, and a tragedy played with See also:great success at the Odeon in 1848, La See also:Fine d'Eschylt
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A definitive edition of his works was brought out between 1875 and 1881
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He became a member of the French See also:Academy in 1868, and died at Marseilles on the 6th of See also: |
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