Alphonse De Lamartine
Alphonse De Lamartine was the person I picked out the other romantic poet’s.
Alphonse De Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the second republic and the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France.
He was born on October 21,1790 in Burgundy, France and died on February 28,1869 in Paris, France. Alphonse De Lamartine wrote “Le Lac” The Lake also the Histories des Girondins in 1847. When Lamartine was born in Burgundy, on 21 October 1790. His family were members of the French provincial nobility, and he spend his youth at the family estate. Time after he was briefly in charge of the government during the turbulence of 1848. He was also a Minister of Foreign Affairs from 24 February 1848 to 11 May 1848. Lamartine was instrumental in the founding of the Second Republic of France,
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A political idealist who supported democracy and pacifism, his moderate stance on most issues caused many of his followers to desert him. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the presidential election of 10 December 1848, receiving fewer than 19,000 votes. He subsequently retired from politics and dedicated himself to literature. Lamartine famous poem was “Le Lac” The Lake, which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. He also wrote Histoire des Girondins in 1847 in praise of the Girondists. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms. Raised a devout Catholic, Lamartine became a pantheist, writing Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange. Lamartine made his entrance into the field of poetry by a masterpiece, Les Méditations Poétiques (1820), and awoke to find himself
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to act as his private secretary. Meriwether Lewis was a skilled frontiersman and an amateur scientist. Around 1804 Thomas Jefferson made Meriwether Lewis another offer, he asked him if he would led an expedition into the lands west of the Mississippi. Lewis asked one of his closet friend, William Clark, if he would join Lewis in this expedition; William Clark agreed to be his co-captain. Meriwether Lewis was an extraordinary man for the things he's accomplished as a frontiersman, amateur scientist, an intellectual and a explorer.
The early life of Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre gives insight into the man at the center of the French revolution. Robespierre’s birth was just as controversial as his death due to the fact he was born out of wedlock on Born on 6 May 1758. The eldest of four children his mother died when he was six years of age and his father, an established lawyer, subsequently left. Robespierre continued to reside in Arras under the care of his maternal grandfather. He taught himself to read, and do to his astounding intellect was recommended by the local bishop for a full scholarship to Lycée Louis-le-Grande. His academic conduct was so exemplary that the seventeen year old Robespierre was chosen to give a welcoming speech to King Louis XVI. This is a curious fact as Robespierre would later in life speak in favor of executing the same King. His education was completed ...
Ronald Joseph Dominique was born in Thibodaux , Louisiana,( Between New Orleans and Baton Rouge), on January 9, 1964. Thibodaux was a relatively well-sized city of about 14, 567 people. Ronald had attended Thibodaux High School and was involved in their glee club and choir, and unfortunately was a victim of sexual discrimination; Ronald was a victim of bullying where the students had accused him of homosexuality. Due to the event, as he aged he developed a sense of split- personality. One side of him would be a gentle, calm, mild -natured and friendly neighbor, and the other side of him was a cross-dressing drag queen attending homosexual bars. In fact, Ron was in the Lions Club just a few months before his arrest and his confession to the
Europeans during the 16th Century had made unique technological and intellectual advancements, they expanded their knowledge and continued to spread their dominance across the world. These advancements perpetuated the idea that their race was superior to other races and that they had the right to hold other groups of people accountable for what they saw as transgressions. Europeans felt the need to control and make sure that all groups of people were following their moral state of conducts. In History of A Voyage to the Land Of Brazil, Jean De Lery introduces the main motivation of the Europeans journey to the Americas by emphasizing that it was influenced by Christian values ( Lery 3). This shows how the concept of Christianity is important
Mirabeau B.Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas, was born near Louisville, Georgia, on August 16, 1798. He grew up at Fairfield, his father's plantation near Milledgeville.As a little boy he became an expert horseman and an accomplished fencer, began writing verse, and painted in oils. He married Tabitha Jordan of Twiggs County, Georgia, on January 1, 1826, and soon resigned his secretaryship to nurse his bride, who was ill with tuberculosis. In 1828 he moved his wife and daughter, Rebecca Ann, to the new town of Columbus, Georgia. Lamar was elected state senator in 1829 and was a candidate for reelection when his wife died on August 20, 1830. He left from the race and traveled until he was sufficiently recovered. During this time he collected two of his best poems, "At Evening on the Banks of the Chattahoochee" and "Thou Idol of My Soul." He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1832, helped organize
Jacques Louis David was a french painter and artist who primarily focused his work on Neoclassicism. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, David's artwork flourished in France and became well known after a while. David used several different techniques and styles of art in his time, but he mastered a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms in his paintings, and polished surfaces. He mainly painted in the service of royalty, radical revolutionaries, and an emperor. Even though his political allegiances shifted, he kept his art techniques faithful to the principles of Neoclassicism. Jacques Louis David intrigues the viewers attention by exaggerating the actions and movement of the people displayed
Louis' ministers Turgot, Necker and Calonne all agreed that France needed reforming if it was to get out of the massive debt it had accumulated. In February of 1787, Louis called the Assembly of Notables as France was in dire need of tax reform due to its debt. Louis suggested tax reforms to bring government expenditure in line with government income but because he had lost his authority as a king, he could not persuade the first and second estates to agree with a tax reform and they did not wish to bear the burden of increased taxation. This showed Louis to be weak and unable to make decisions about France's future. Shortly afterwards on the 5th May 1789, the Estates General was called and Louis' absolute power over France was all but over. This was one of the main events that led to the start of the French revolution an...
poets and authors to use the words and phrases that he created in his poetry.
He was born on September 6, 1757, in Chavaniac, France to a prestige’s military family. By the age of twelve he was a very rich orphan. Life moved at a very fast pace in the 1700’s and Marquis de Lafayette found himself joining the royal army at the age of fourteen. Then at the age of sixteen he allied himself to one of one of the richest families in France by marring fourteen year old Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles. Her family was also closely related to the king.
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
contributed to the execution of King Louis XVI so that French citizens might find a better existence under honest rule. To keep citizens focused on the revolution, he established a
Doyle, W. (2005, September 7). The French revolution of 1848European history summary France. Retrieved October 14,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, George Gordon Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were all poets in the Romantic era. They all had a love of their country and wrote about nature and revolution in some of their poems.
The French revolution influenced tremendously the writings of the romantics during that period. Different poets depicted different issues concerning the revolution such as Napoleon's cruelty, poets escape to nature in getting away of the real world and its problems, victims of war and various other realistic situations which were effects from war. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are two of the major figures of the romantic period and their writings had a great impact on people and the anti-revolutionary spirit.