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Alexandre Soumet was born on the 18th of February 1788 at Castelnaudary, department of Aude.
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Alexandre Soumet was born on the 18th of February 1788 at Castelnaudary, department of Aude.
His father wished him to enter the army, but an early-developed love of poetry turned the boy's ambition in other directions.
He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then little known in France. Soumet moved to Paris in 1810 and wrote poems in honor of Napoleon that secured his nomination as auditeur of the Conseil d'État. His elegy La pauvre fille appeared in 1814, and two successful tragedies produced in 1822, Clytemnestre and Saül, secured his admission to the Academy in 1824. Jeanne d'Arc (1825) was his most critically acclaimed play. Elisabeth de France (1828) was a weak imitation of Schiller's Don Carlos, But Soumet's real bent was towards epic poetry. A poem inspired by Klopstock, La divine épopée, describes the descent of Christ into Hades.
Soumet's Norma, ou L'infanticide (Norma, or The Infanticide) was adapted by Vincenzo Bellini into the well-known opera Norma.
Under Louis XVIII Soumet became librarian of Saint-Cloud, and subsequently was transferred to Rambouillet and to Compiègne.
He died leaving an unfinished epic on Jeanne d'Arc.
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