JUSTE See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

DANIEL See also:

• JUSTE DANIEL OLIVIER (1807-1876)

OLIVIER (1807-1876)  , Swiss poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born near Nyon in the See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• VAUD (Ger. Waadt)

Vaud; he was brought up as a See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant, but studied at the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of Nyon, and later at the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne . Though originally intended for the See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry, his poetic See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius (foreshadowed by the prizes he obtained in 1825 and 1828 for poems on Marcos See also:

• BOTZARIS [BozzARls], MARCO (c. 1788-1823)

Botzaris and Julia Alpinula respectively) inclined him towards See also:

• LITERARY

literary studies . He was named See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of literature at See also:

• NEUCHATEL
• NEUCHATEL (Ger. Neuenburg)
• NEUCHATEL, LAKE OF

Neuchatel (183o), but before taking up the duties of his See also:

• POST

post made a visit to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where he completed his See also:

• EDUCATION

education and became associated with Ste Beuve, especially from 1837 onwards . He professed See also:

• HISTORY

history at Lausanne from 1833 to 1846, when he lost his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in consequence of the religious troubles . He then went to Paris, where he remained till 1870, earning his See also:

• BREAD

bread by various means, but being nearly forgotten in his native See also:

• LAND

land, to which he remained tenderly attached . From 1845 till 186o (when the See also:

• MAGAZINE

magazine was merged in the Bibliotheque universelle) See also:

• OLIVIER, JUSTE DANIEL (1807-1876)

Olivier and his wife wrote in the Revue suisse the Paris See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, which . had been started by Ste Beuve in 1843, when Olivier became the owner of the periodical . After the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of . 187o he settled down in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, spending his summers at his beloved Gryon, and died at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva on the 7th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1876 . Besides some novels, a semi-poetical See also:

• WORK

work on the Canton of Vaud (2 vols., 1837—1841), and a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical essays entitled Etudes d'histoire nationale (1842), he published several volumes of poems, Deux Voix (1835), Chansons lointaines (1847) and its continuation Chansons du soir (1867), and Sentiers de montagne (Gryon, 1875) . His younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother, Urbain (1810-1888), was well known from 1856 onwards as the author of numerous popular tales of rural See also:

• LIFE

life in the Canton of Vaud, especially of the region near Nyon . Life by See also:

• RAMBERT, EUGENE (1830-1886)

Rambert (1877), republished in his Ecrivains de la Suisse romande (1889), and also prefixed to his edition of Olivier's U uvres choisies (Lausanne, 1879) . (W .

A . B .