Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun
Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun (born August 11, 1729 in Paris , † August 31, 1807 there ) was a French poet .
Écouchard-Lebrun, known as Lebrun-Pindare, was the secretary of Prince Louis-François Conti and first turned to poetry, then, after his divorce from his wife in 1774 and the loss of his fortune in 1783, to satire and epigrams .
His verses were considered controversial: the minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne suspended his pension, Maximilien de Robespierre found him an apartment in the Louvre and Napoléon Bonaparte assigned him a pension of 6,000 francs.
Among other things, he wrote odes to Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon and more than madrigals and epigrams , most of which refer to his literary disputes.
In 1811, Pierre Louis Ginguené published a four-volume collection of his works which, in addition to the epigrams, contained six books of odes, four books of elegies, two books of epistles, fragments of two larger poems: Les veillées du Parnasse and La nature, some translations, etc. His oeuvre choisies appeared in Paris 1822–28, 2 volumes.
Web links
- Literature by Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun in the catalog of the SWB, Southwest German Library Network
- Literature by and about Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Écouchard-Lebrun, Ponce-Denis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1807 |
| Place of death | Paris |