Jacques Delille

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Jacques Delille (standing) at a reading of his poetry La Conversation in the Paris Salon of Madame de Geoffrin (seated). (1812)

Jacques Delille (occasionally Abbé Delille , born June 22, 1738 in Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne , † May 1, 1813 in Paris ) was a French poet .

Life

The monument to Jacques Delille (1738 - 1823) was erected shortly after his death in 1824 and bears the base inscription: He died of the Muses and weeping for all the good.
The memorial is in the Ermitage Arlesheim

Jacques Delille was the son of the lawyer Montanier Delille and went to school at the Collège Lisieux in Paris. After graduating, he became a teacher at high schools in Beauvais and Amiens , then in Paris. He showed great poetic talent at an early age, but only became famous in 1769 with his translation of Virgil's Georgica .

As the successor to the natural scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine , Delille was elected to the Académie française in 1772 (Fauteuil 23), but his admission was delayed until 1774 because of his youth. He also became a Freemason in the Parisian lodge Les Neuf Sœurs .

After the Enlightenment had exchanged his teaching activities for a professorship in Latin poetry at the Collège royal , he published his first major original work in 1782, the didactic poem Les jardins, ou l'art d'embellir les paysages , with which he was very successful, especially since he was also an excellent reader.

Upon his return from a trip to Constantinople , where he had accompanied the French ambassador , diplomat and antiquarian Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier , Delille found his situation completely changed by the French Revolution . Although he retained his freedom, he lost his income of 30,000 francs from the Abbey of St. Severin, which the Count of Artois had given him.

While on the board of directors he made a trip through Germany and England , returned to France in 1802 and resumed his professorship and his influential position in society.

Delille died on May 1, 1813, after being completely blind in recent years.

Works

as an author
  • Les Jardins . 1782.
  • L'homme des champs, ou les Géorgiques françaises . 1800.
  • Poésies fugitives . 1802.
  • Dithyrambe sur l'Être suprême et l'immortalité de l'âme . 1802.
  • Le malheur et la pitié . 1803.
  • L'imagination, poème en huit chants . 1806.
  • The trois règnes de la nature . 1809.
  • La conversation . 1812.
  • Oeuvres . Michaud, Paris 1824 (16 vols.)
as translator

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . Herbig Verlag, 5th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Delille, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Clermont-Ferrand
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1813
Place of death Paris