Emile Deschamps

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Emile Deschamps de Saint Amand known as Emile Deschamps born with Bourges the February 20th 1791 and died in Versailles the April 23rd 1871 is a Poète French.

Deschamps had already composed some poetries and makes play, with Latouche, two comedies, of which one, the Turn of favor (1818), had had much success, when the romantic movement occurred of which it became one of the first representatives. At their head, it founded, in 1824, with Victor Hugo, the MUSE Frenchwoman which it wrote with him and Vigny, Nodier, etc It inserted there its best pieces of poetry, and the articles of criticism, under the pseudonym of the Young moralist.

Besides some librettos of operas, Emile Deschamps, elegant and gracious poet, hardly wrote but spare parts, occasional verse, news, drafts, inserted in a crowd of newspapers and literary collections. Its works are invaluable for the study of manners and the political history. One quotes also the verse translation of Romeo and Juliette (1839) and of Macbeth (1814). Its complete Œuvres was published in 1872 - 73, 4 vol. in-18.

Emile Deschamps was the brother of Antony Deschamps.

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 613

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