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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOLAS See also:JOSEPH See also:LAURENT See also:GILBERT (1751–1780)  , See also:French poet, was See also:born at Fontenay-le-See also:Chateau in See also:Lorraine in 1751 . Having completed his See also:education at the See also:college of See also:Dole, he devoted himself for a See also:time to a See also:half-scholastic, half-See also:literary See also:life at See also:Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the See also:capital . As an opponent of the Encyclopaedists and a panegyrist of See also:Louis XV., he received considerable See also:pensions . He died in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:November 1780 from the results of a fall from his See also:horse . The satiric force of one or two of his pieces, as Mon Apologie (1778) and Le See also:Dix-huitieme Siecle (1775), would alone be sufficient to preserve his reputation, which has been further increased by See also:modern writers, who, like See also:Alfred de See also:Vigny in his Stello (chaps . 7-13), considered him a victim to the spite of his philosophic opponents . His best-known verses are the See also:Ode imitee de plusieurs psaumes, usually entitled Adieux d la See also:vie . Among his other See also:works may be mentioned See also:Les Families de See also:Darius et d'Eridame, histoire persane (1770), Le Carnaval ties auteurs (1773), Odes nouvelles et patriotiques (1775) . See also:Gilbert's Euvres completes were first published in 1788, and they have since been edited by Mastrella (Paris, 1823), by See also:Charles See also:Nodier (1817 or 1825), and by M. de See also:Lescure (1882) .

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