Antoine Bertin
See also: Bertin
Antoine Bertin , known as the knight Bertin , is a Poète French born with the island Bourbon the October 10th 1752 and died with Saint-Domingue the June 30th 1790.
Biography
Antoine Bertin was taken along to France to the nine years age and, “ transplanted in Paris ”, according to its own formula, it made brilliant studies with the Colin pension of Picpus then to the college of Plessis. It entered the military career and was lieutenant then captain of cavalry to the regiment of Franche-Comté before becoming in 1777 rider of the count d' Artois.It was familiar of the court of Louis XVI and of the queen Marie-Antoinette. Attracted by poetry, it started by imitating Claude-Joseph Dorat. Friend and commensal of Évariste de Forges of Parny, its compatriot of the island Bourbon, it belonged to its “company of the Barracks” and mixed with him the pleasures with the life and those with poetry. As of 1772, Bertin had collaborated in the Almanach of the Muses . In 1777, it published a Voyage in Burgundy interfered with prose and worms, with the imitation of famous the Voyage of Vault and Bachaumont.
Towards 1773, Antoine Bertin éprit of Marie Catherine Testard. Their connection lasted seven years. The young woman is described in the Loves under the name of Eucharis. She ends up marrying a financier, which left the inconsolable poet. He travelled in Italy where he was allured by the ancient ruins. Marie Catherine asked to join again with him, but, during a stay which it had made in Paris, Antoine Bertin had bound with a young Creole of 16 years old Santo Domingo, Helene de Lestang, called Catilie.
It seems that he took share with the Guerre of independence of the United States of America. Of return in metropolitan France, it carried out towards 1782 a voyage to Cauterets to look after a compromised health there. It is from there that there addressed a letter remained famous to Parny.
Little before the French revolution, Bertin embarked for Saint-Domingue in order to marry Helene de Lestang. It arrived exhausted, and the marriage had to be delayed. It was finally celebrated in June 1790 in the room of the poet, who disappears as soon as after having pronounced “yes”. He died old of only 38 years 17 days later, the June 30th, carried by the Typhus.
Work
Bertin did not compose so to speak anything but of the elegies, joined together under the title the Loves (1773, 1780). She were worth to him the nickname, moreover little justified, of “Properce French”. He often imitates Tibulle and Ovide. Its worms are harmonious, spiritual, of good tone, full with grace and of feeling, they do not miss sensuality, but the author remains a poet of the 18th century, academic and relatively monotonous.Its complete Œuvres was joined together with Paris in 1802 and 1824, 1 volume in-8.
Partial source
External bonds
- Antoine Bertin, Letter with Mister the Count de Parny Written of the Pyrenees.
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