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VICOMTE DE See also:HENRI See also:BORNIER (1825-1901) See also:French poet and dramatist, was See also:born at Lunel (See also:Herault) on the 25th of See also:December 1825 . He came to See also:Paris in 1845 with the See also:object of studying See also:law, but in that See also:year he published a See also:volume of See also:verse, See also:Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comedie Francaise accepted a See also:play of his entitled Le Mariage de See also:Luther . He was given a See also:post in the library of the See also:Arsenal, where he served for See also:half a See also:century, becoming director in 1889 . In 1875 was produced at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais his heroic See also:drama in verse, La Fille de See also:Roland . The See also:action of the play turns on the love of Gerald, son of the traitor Ganelon, for the daughter of Roland . The patriotic subject and the See also:nobility of the See also:character of Gerald, who renounces Berthe when he learns his real origin, procured for the piece a See also:great success . The conflict between See also:honour and love and the grandiose sentiment of the play inevitably provoked comparison with See also:Corneille . The piece would indeed be a masterpiece if, as its critics were not slow to point out, the verse had been quite equal to the subject . Among the numerous other See also:works of M. de See also:Bornier should be mentioned: Dimitri (1876), libretto of an See also:opera by M . V. de See also:Joncieres; and the dramas, Les Noces d' See also:Attila (188o) and Makomet (1888) . The See also:production of this last piece was forbidden in deference to the representations of the See also:Turkish See also:ambassador . See also:Henri de Bornier was critic of the Nouvelle Revue from 1879 to 1887 . His Poesies completes were published in 1894 . He died in See also:January 1901 . |
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