Background
Emmanuel-Adolphe was born at Paris on the 5th of February 1839, son of Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts. His father (d. 1893) was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation.
Emmanuel-Adolphe was born at Paris on the 5th of February 1839, son of Alfred Stanislas Langlois des Essarts. His father (d. 1893) was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation.
Emmanuel-Adolphe was educated at the École Normale Supérieure.
Des Essarts became a teacher of rhetoric and finally professor of literature at Dijon and at Clermont.
Emmanuel-Adolphe was known for his works: Poésies parisiennes (1862), a volume of light verse on trifling subjects; Les Élévations (1864), philosophical poems; Origines de la poésie lyrique en France au XVIe siècle (1873); Du génie de Chateaubriand (1876); Poèmes de la Révolution (1879); Pallas Athéné (1887); Portraits de maîtres (1888), &c.
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