NICOLAS

See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

See also:

• LAURENT, FRANCOIS (1810–1887)

LAURENT

See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT GILBERT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

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