Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian
Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian (born March 24, 1770 in Toulouse , † September 18, 1854 in Paris ) was a French poet.
Baour-Lormian translated Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata (1575) under the title Liberated Jerusalem ( La Jérusalem délivrée , Toulouse 1795, revised 1819). He settled in Paris and soon made a name for himself with his satires and epigrams. In 1801 he published his translation of James Macpherson's Ossian, barde du troisième siècle: poésies galliques en vers français , a translation in verse that brought Ossianism into fashion.
In 1807 his tragedy Omasis, ou Joseph en Égypte was performed, according to Marie-Joseph Chénier's judgment a "frosty work", which owed its success only to the good style and a few touching points; on the other hand, Mahomet II (1811) completely failed the audience.
In 1815 he became a member of the Académie française . There he was seen as a fighter for classicism, for example in the satire Canon d'alarme and also in the petition submitted with six others in 1829 for the exclusion of romanticism from the Théâtre français .
In addition to smaller poems, epics and ballads, the
- Veillées poétiques et morales, suivies des plus beaux fragmens d 'Young en vers français (1811), in Edward Young's manner,
- the novel Duranti, premier président du parlement de Toulouse, ou la Ligue en province (1828, 4 vols.);
- Légend Ballades et Fabliaux (1829).
The last and best work is the poetic translation of the book of Job (Le Livre de Job) , which he completed when he was already blind.
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baour-Lormian, Louis-Pierre-Marie-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baour-Lormian, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1854 |
| Place of death | Paris |