See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS EDOUARD See also:

• JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)

JOACHIM See also:

• FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE (1842—1908)
• COPPEE, HENRY (1821-1895)

COPPEE (1842—1908)  , See also:

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

French poet and novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 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 on the 12th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1842 . His See also:

• FATHER

father held a small See also:

• POST

post in the See also:

• CIVIL

civil service, and he owed much to the care of an admirable See also:

• MOTHER

mother . After passing through the Lycee See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis he became a clerk in the See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry of See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, and soon sprang into public favour as a poet of the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young " Parnassian " school . His first printed verses date from 1864 . They were republished with others in 1866 in a collected See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form (Le Reliquaire), followed (1867) by See also:

• LES

Les Intimites and Poemes modernes (1867-1869) . In 1869 his first See also:

• PLAY

play, Le Passant, was received with marked approval at the Odeon See also:

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

theatre, and later Fais ce que dois (1871) and Les Bijoux de la delivrance (1872), See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short metrical dramas inspired by the war, were warmly applauded. f After filling a post in the library of the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, See also:

• COPPEE, FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM (1842—1908)
• COPPEE, HENRY (1821-1895)

Coppee was chosen in 1878 as archivist of the Comedie-Francaise, an See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office which he held till 1884 . In that See also:

• YEAR

year his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy caused him to retire altogether from his public appointments . He continued to publish volumes of See also:

• POETRY

poetry at frequent intervals, including Les Humbles (1872), Le Cahier See also:

• ROUGE (" red," from Lat. rubeus)

rouge (1874), See also:

• OLIVIER, JUSTE DANIEL (1807-1876)

Olivier (1875), L'Exilee {1876), Conies en vers, &c . (1881), Fames et recits (1886), Arriere-saison (1887), Paroles sinceres (189o) . In his later years his output 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 declined, but he published two more volumes, Dans la priere et la lutle and Vers See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais . He had established his fame as " le poke See also:

• DES

des humbles." Besides the plays mentioned above, two others written in collaboration with Armand d'See also:

• ARTOIS

Artois, and some See also:

• LIGHT

light pieces of little importance, Coppee produced Madame de See also:

• MAINTENON

Maintenon (1881), Severo Torelli (1883), Les See also:

• JACOBITES (from Lat. Jacobus, James)

Jacobites (1885), and other serious dramas in verse, including Pour la couronne (1895), which was translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English (For the See also:

• CROWN

Crown) by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• DAVIDSON, ANDREW BRUCE (1831–1902)
• DAVIDSON, JOHN (1857–1909)
• DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848– )
• DAVIDSON, SAMUEL (1807-1898)
• DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)

Davidson, and produced at the See also:

• LYCEUM

Lyceum Theatre in 1896 . The performance of a short See also:

• EPISODE

episode of the See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

Commune, Le See also:

• PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

Pater, was prohibited by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government (1889) .

Coppee's first See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story in See also:

• PROSE

prose, Une Idylle See also:

• PENDANT (through Fr. from Lat. pendere, to hang)

pendant le See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege, appeared in 1875 . It was followed by various volumes of short tales, by Toute une jeunesse (,89o)—an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to reproduce the feelings, if not the actual wants, of the writer's youth,—Les Vrais Riches (1892), Le Coupable (1896), &c . He was made an officer of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of 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 in 1888 . A See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of reprinted short articles on See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous subjects, styled Mon See also:

• FRANC

Franc Parler, appeared from 1893 to 1896; and in 1898 was published La Bonne Souffrance, the outcome of Coppee's reconversion to the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, which gained very wide popularity . The immediate cause of his return to the faith was a severe illness which twice brought him to the See also:

• VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod)

verge of the See also:

• GRAVE

grave . Hitherto he had taken little open See also:

• INTEREST

interest in public affairs, but he now joined the most violent See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of Nationalist politicians, while retaining contempt for the whole apparatus of See also:

• DEMOCRACY (Gr. 3np.oKparia, from S)µos, the people, i.e. the commons, and Kparos, rule)

democracy . He took a leading See also:

• PART

part against the prisoner in the See also:

• DREYFUS, ALFRED (1859– )

Dreyfus See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, and was one of the originators of the notorious Ligue de la Patric Francaise . He died on the 23rd of May 1908 . Alike in verse and prose Coppee concerned himself with the plainest expressions of human emotion, with elemental patriot-ism, and the joy of young love, and the pitifulness of the poor, bringing to See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear on each a singular See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of sympathy and insight . The lyric and idyllic poetry, by which he will chiefly be re-membered, is animated by musical See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm, and in some instances, such as La See also:

• BENEDICTION (Lat. benedictio, from benedicere, to bless)

Benediction and La Greve des forgerons, displays a vivid, though not a sustained, See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of expression . There is force, too, in the gloomy See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, Le Coupable . But he exhibits all the defects of his qualities .

In prose especially, his sentiment often degenerates into sentimentality, and he continually approaches, and sometimes oversteps, the verge of the trivial . Nevertheless, by neglecting that See also:

• CANON

canon of contemporary See also:

• ART

art which would reduce the deepest tragedies of See also:

• LIFE

life to See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere subjects for See also:

• DISSECTION (from Lat. dissecare, to cut apart)

dissection, he won those See also:

• COMMON

common suffrages which are the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize of exquisite literature . See M. de See also:

• LESCURE, LOUIS MARIE JOSEPH, MARQUIS DE (1766—1793)

Lescure's See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois Coppee, l'homme, la See also:

• VIE

vie, l'ceuvre (1889), and G . Druilhet, Un Poete francais (1902) .