François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison
François-Auguste de Parseval de Grandmaison (May 7th 1759 with Paris - December 7th 1834 in Paris) is a French poet. He is the younger brother of the Mathématicien Marc-Antoine Parseval.
He intends himself first of all for the painting, which he studies near the painter David. Ruined by the Revolution, he manages to earn his living as portraitist during the Terreur.
Being rejoined with Napoleon, in the honor of which it composes several poems, it is named member of the Commission of Sciences and Arts which accompanies Bonaparte at the time of the Campagne by Egypt in 1798.
Elected official member of the French Academy in 1811, it devotes himself to the composition of one epopee to which it works more than twenty years. When Philippe Auguste, poem heroic in twelve songs appears in 1826, this celebration of the Bataille of Bouvines account ten thousand Alexandrin S.
Works
- made up various Poetries in Egypt, England and France (1803)
- epic Loves, poem in six songs, containing the translation of the episodes on the love composed by best the poëtes epic (1804)
- the guarantee (1804)
- birth of the king de Rome (1811)
- the marriage of Napoleon (1819)
- Philippe-Auguste, heroic poem in twelve songs (1825)
External bonds
- Biographical note of the French Academy
- Page of a personal site on Parseval de Grandmaison
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