VICOMTE DE See also:

• HENRI

HENRI See also:

• VICOMTE DE HENRI BORNIER (1825-1901)

BORNIER (1825-1901)  See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French poet and dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Lunel (See also:

• HERAULT

Herault) on the 25th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1825 . He came to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1845 with the See also:

• OBJECT

object of studying See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, but in that See also:

• YEAR

year he published a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, See also:

• LES

Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comedie Francaise accepted a See also:

• PLAY

play of his entitled Le Mariage de See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther . He was given a See also:

• POST

post in the library of the See also:

• ARSENAL

Arsenal, where he served for See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, becoming director in 1889 . In 1875 was produced at the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais his heroic See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama in verse, La Fille de See also:

• ROLAND
• ROLAND, LEGEND OF

Roland . The See also:

• ACTION

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

nobility of the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of Gerald, who renounces Berthe when he learns his real origin, procured for the piece a See also:

• GREAT

great success . The conflict between See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour and love and the grandiose sentiment of the play inevitably provoked comparison with See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709)

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

works of M. de See also:

• BORNIER, HENRI, VICOMTE DE (1825-1901)

Bornier should be mentioned: Dimitri (1876), libretto of an See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera by M . V. de See also:

• JONCIERES, VICTORIN (1839–1903)

Joncieres; and the dramas, Les Noces d' See also:

• ATTILA (d. 453)

Attila (188o) and Makomet (1888) . The See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of this last piece was forbidden in deference to the representations of the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador . See also:

• HENRI

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

January 1901 .