Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine was born in Mâcon on 21 October 1790. A diplomat, then a deputy from 1833, he was in 1848 a member of the provisional government and minister of Foreign Affairs, and played an active part in the abolition of slavery in the colonies. A candidate in the presidential election of the same year, he gathered only very few votes. Burdened with debts, he wrote abundantly to repay them, and died on 28 February 1869.

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