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SMILE DESCHAMPS (1791-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 90 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMILE

DESCHAMPS (1791-1871)  , French poet and man of letters, was born at
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Bourges on the 20th of
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February 1.791 . The son of a
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civil servant, he adopted his
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father's career, but as early as 1812 he distinguished himself by an ode, La Paix conquise, which won the praise of
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Napoleon . In 1818 he collaborated with
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Henri de Latouche in two verse comedies, Selmours de Florian and Le Tour de faveur . He and his
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brother were among the most enthusiastic disciples of the cenacle gathered round Victor Hugo, and in
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July 1823 Emile founded with- his master the Muse Irancaise, which during the
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year of its existence was the specialorgan of the romantic party . His Etudes francaises et l trangilres (1828) were preceded by a preface which may be regarded as one of the manifestos of the romanticists . The versions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1839) and of
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Macbeth (1844), important as they were in the
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history of the romantic
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movement, were never staged . He was the author of several libretti, among which may be mentioned the Romeo e ! Juliette of Berlioz . The list of his more important
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works is completed by his two volumes of stories, Contes physiologiques (1854) and Realites fantastiques (1854) . He died at
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Versailles in
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April 1871 . His CEuvres completes were published in 1872-1874 (6 vols.) . His brother, Antoine Francois
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Marie, known as ANTONY DESCHAMPS, was born in Paris on the 12th of March 1800 and died at Passy on the 29th of
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October 1869 .

Like his brother, he was an ardent romanticist, but his

production was limited by a
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nervous disorder, which has
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left its mark on his melancholy
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work . He translated the Divina Commedia in 1829, and his poems, Dernieres Paroles and Resignation, were republished with his brother's, in 1841 .

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