Pierre-Jacques-René Denne-Baron

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Pierre-Jacques-René Denne-Baron (born September 6, 1780 in Paris , † June 5, 1854 ibid) was a French writer .

Denne-Baron was the son of a wealthy family, and apart from philological studies he devoted himself to his passion for poetry . He translated poems by Properz and fragments from Virgil , Marcus Annaeus Lucanus and Claudian into verse , and into prose he translated works by Anakreon , Properz and other poets.

Denne-Baron also left a number of his own poems , such as:

He was a key contributor to the Dictionnaire de la conversation . He died impoverished in Paris.