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See also: born in the See also: island of See also: Reunion on the 22nd of See also: October 1818
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His See also: father, an army surgeon, who brought him up with See also: great severity, sent him to travel in the See also: East Indies with a view to preparing him for a commercial See also: life
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After this voyage he went to See also: Rennes to See also: complete his See also: education, studying especially See also: Greek, See also: Italian and See also: history
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He returned once or twice to Reunion, but in 1846 settled definitely in See also: Paris
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His first See also: volume, La See also: Venus de See also: Milo, attracted to him a number of See also: friends many of whom were passionately devoted to classical literature
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In 1873 he was made assistant librarian at the Luxembourg; in 1886 he was elected to the See also: Academy in succession to Victor Hugo
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His Fames antiques appeared in 1852; Fabrics et poesies in 1854; Le Chemin de la croix in 1859; the Poemes barbares, in their first See also: form, in 1862; See also: Les Erinnyes, a tragedy after the Greek See also: model, in 1872; for which occasional See also: music was provided by Jules Massenet; the Fames tragiques in 1884; L'Apollonide, another classical tragedy, in 1888; and two See also: posthumous volumes, Derniers poemes in 1899, and Premieres poesies et lettres intimes in 1902
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In addition to his See also: original See also: work in verse, he published a series of admirable See also: prose See also: translations of See also: Theocritus, See also: Homer, See also: Hesiod, See also: Aeschylus, See also: Sophocles, See also: Euripides, Horace
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He died at Voisins, near Louveciennes (See also: Seine-et-See also: Oise), on the 18th of See also: July 1894
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In Leconte de See also: Lisle the Parnassian See also: movement seems to crystallize
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His verse is clear, sonorous, dignified, deliberate in movement, classically correct in rhythm, full of exotic See also: local colour, of savage names, of realistic rhetoric
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It has its own kind of See also: romance, in its " See also: legend of the ages," so different from Hugo's, so much See also: fuller of scholarship and the historic sense, yet with far less of human pity
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Coldness cultivated as a kind of See also: artistic distinction seems to turn all his See also: poetry to marble, in spite of the fire at its See also: heart
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Most of Leconte de Lisle's poems are little chill epics, in which legend is fossilized
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They have the lofty monotony of a single conception of life and of the universe
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He See also: sees the See also: world as what See also: Byron called it, " a glorious blunder," and desires only to stand a little apart from the throng, meditating scornfully
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Hope, with him, becomes no more than this desperate certainty:
" Tu to tairas, o voix sinistre See also: des vivants
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His only prayer is to See also: Death, " divine Death," that it may gather its See also: children to its breast:
" Affranchis-noun du temps, du nombre et de 1'espace, Et rends-nous le repos que la See also: vie a trouble!"
The See also: interval which is his he accepts with something of the See also: defiance of his own See also: Cain, refusing to fill it with the triviality cf happiness, waiting even upon beauty with a certain inflexible austerity
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He listens and watches, throughout the world, for echoes and glimpses of great tragic passions, languid with fire in the East, a tumultuous conflagration in the See also: middle ages, a sombre darkness in the heroic ages of the See also: North
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The burning emptiness of the See also: desert attracts him, the inexplicable melancholy of the See also: dogs that bark at the See also: moon; he would interpret the See also: jaguar's dreams, the sleep of the See also: condor
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He sees nature with the same wrathful impatience as See also: man, praising it for its destructive energies, its haste to crush out human life before the stars fall into See also: chaos, and the world with them, as one of the least of stars
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He sings the " See also: Dies Irae " exultingly; only seeming to See also: desire an end of See also: God as well as of man, universal nothingness
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He conceives that he does well to b& angry, and this anger is indeed the See also: personal note of his pessimism; but it leaves him somewhat apart from the philosophical poets, too fierce for wisdom and not rapturous enough for poetry
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(A
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SY.) See J . Dornis, Leconte de Lisle intime 0895); F . Calmette, Un Demi siecle litteraire, Leconte de Lisle et ses amis (1902) ; See also: Paul Bourget,
Nouveaux essais de psychologie contemporaine (1885) ; F
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Brunetiere, L'See also: Evolution de la poesie lyrique en See also: France au XIX' siecle (1894); See also: Maurice Spronck, Les Artistes litteraires (1889) ; J
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Lemaitre, Les Contemporains (2nd series, 1886) ; F
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Brunetiere, Nouveaux essais sur la litt. contemp
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(1895)
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LE COQ, ROBERT (d
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1373), French See also: bishop, was born at See also: Montdidier, although he belonged to a bourgeois See also: family of See also: Orleans, where he first attended school before coming to Paris
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In Paris he became advocate to the
See also: parlement (1347) ; then See also: King
See also: John appointed him master of
See also: requests, and in 1351, a See also: year during which he received many other honours, he became bishop of See also: Laon
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At the opening of 1354 he was sent with the See also: cardinal of See also: Boulogne, See also: Pierre I., duke of Bourbon, and See also: Jean VI., count of See also: Vendome, to Mantes to treat with See also: Charles the
See also: Bad, king of See also: Navarre, who had caused the See also: constable, Charles of See also: Spain, to be assassinated, and from this See also: time See also: dates his connexion with this king
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At the meeting of the estates which opened in Paris in October 1356 Le Coq played a leading role and was one of the most outspoken of the orators, especially when petitions were presented to the dauphin Charles, denouncing the bad See also: government of the See also: realm and demanding the banishment of the royal councillors
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Soon, however, the See also: credit of the estates having gone down, he withdrew to his diocese, but at the See also: request of the bourgeois of Paris he speedily returned
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The king of Navarre had succeeded in escaping from prison and had entered Paris, where his party was in the ascendant; and Robert le Coq became the most powerful See also: person in his council
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No. one dared to contradict him, and he brought into it whom he pleased
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He did not See also: scruple to reveal to the king of Navarre secret deliberations, but his See also: fortune soon turned
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He ran great danger at the estates of See also: Compiegne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to St Denis, where Charles the Bad and Etienne See also: Marcel came to find him
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After the death of Marcel, he tried, unsuccessfully, to deliver Laon, his episcopal See also: town, to the king of Navarre, and he was excluded from the amnesty promised in the treaty of See also: Calais (136o) by King John to the partisans of Charles the Bad
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His temporalities had been seized, and he was obliged to flee from France
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In 1363, thanks to the support of the king of Navarre, he was given the bishopric of See also: Calahorra in the See also: kingdom of See also: Aragon, which he administered until his death in 1373
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See L
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C
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Douet d'Arcq, " Acte d'accusation contre Robert le Coq, eveque de Laon " in Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Charles, 1st series, t. ii., PP._ 350-387; and R
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Delachenal, " La Bibliotheque d'un avocat du XIV siecle, inventaire estimatif des livres de Robert le Coq," in Nouvelle revue historique de droit frangais et etranger (1887), pp
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