PIERRE

See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE

See also:

• LEBRUN, CHARLES FRANCCOIS
• PIERRE ANTOINE LEBRUN (1785–1873)
• LEBRUN, PONCE DENIS ECOUCHARD (1729-1807)

LEBRUN (1785–1873)  , French poet, was born in Paris on the 29th of November 1785 . An Ode ei la grande armee, mistaken at the time for the work of Ecouchard Lebrun, attracted Napoleon's attention, and secured for theauthor a pension of 1200 francs . Lebrun's plays, once famous, are now forgotten . They are: Ulysse (1814), Marie Stuart (1820), which obtained a great success, and Le Cid d'Andalousie (1825) . Lebrun visited Greece in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon which cost him his pension . In 1825 he was the guest of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford . The coronation of Charles X. in that year inspired the verses entitled La Vallee de Champrosay, which have, perhaps, done more to secure his fame than his more ambitious attempts . In 1828 appeared his most important poem, La Grece, and in the same year he was elected to the Academy . The revolution of 1830 opened up for him a public career; in 1831 he was made director of the Imprimerie Royale, and subsequently filled with distinction other public offices, becoming senator in 18J3 . He died on the 27th of May 1873 . See Sainte-Beuve, Portraits contemporains, vol. ii .