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Victor de Laprade was born on the 13th of January 1812 at Montbrison, in the department of the Loire. He came of a modest provincial family.
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Victor de Laprade was born on the 13th of January 1812 at Montbrison, in the department of the Loire. He came of a modest provincial family.
After completing his studies at Lyons, he produced in 1839 a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine.
In 1845 Laprade visited Italy on a mission of literary research, and in 1847 he was appointed professor of French literature at Lyons. The French Academy, by a single vote, preferred Emile Augier at the election in 1857, but in the following year Laprade was chosen to fill the chair of Alfred de Musset.
This was followed in 1840 by La Colere de Jesus, in 1841 by the religious fantasy of Psyche, and in 1844 by Odes et pohnes. In 1845 Laprade visited Italy on a mission of literary research, and in 1847 he was appointed professor of French literature at Lyons. The French Academy, by a single vote, preferred Emile Augier at the election in 1857, but in the following year Laprade was chosen to fill the chair of Alfred de Musset. In 1861 he was removed from his post at Lyons owing to the publication of a political satire in verse (Les Muses d'Etat), and in 1871 took his seat in the National Assembly on the benches of the Right.
Few writers of any nation have fixed their minds so steadily on whatsoever things are pure, and lovely and of good report.
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As a poet he belongs to the school of Chateaubriand and Lamartine. Devoted to the best classical models, inspired by a sense of the ideal, and by worship of na ture as revealing the divine-gifted, too, with a full faculty of expression-he lacked only fire and passion in the equipment of a romantic poet.
His dislike of irony and scepticism probably led him to underrate the product of the 18th century, and there are signs of a too fastidious dread of Philistinism. But a constant love of the best, a joy in nature and a lofty patriotism are not less evident than in his poetry.