Education
First taught by an uncle, he later studied with M. Bardoux, a professor in the College of Abbeville.
First taught by an uncle, he later studied with M. Bardoux, a professor in the College of Abbeville.
He was a transitional figure between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries as revealed in his Romantic poems. His poem beginning "Dans les bois l"amoureux Myrtil" (Louisiana Fauvette) is also well known as set to music in Vieille Chanson by Georges Bizet, as well as Le Mancenillier, as referred to in Meyerbeer"s L"Africaine and Louis Moreau Gottschalk"s serenade for piano Le Mancenillier, Operation 11. His father died when he was 13 years old, and he was then sent by his family to Paris to finish his education.
He began to study law, then became a bookseller, but finally abandoned both to commit himself to writing.
Millevoye married Margaret Flora Delattre on 31 August 1813 in Abbeville and only had one child, Charles Alfred (9 October 1813 in Abberville –6 June 1891 in Sadroc), who served as magistrate in charge of the judicial organization of Savoie in 1860.