Leconte de Lisle

Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle was born on 22 October 1818 in Saint-Paul, on Réunion, the son of a military surgeon. He spent his youth between the island and Brittany, began law studies in Rennes, which he abandoned for letters, and settled in Paris in 1845. Won over to Fourier's ideas, he took part in the events of 1848, then gave up political action. He translated Homer and other Greek poets, was regarded as the leader of the Parnassians and became librarian of the Senate. Elected to the Académie française in 1886 to the seat of Victor Hugo, he died in Louveciennes on 17 July 1894.

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• PoetryPoèmes antiquesLeconte de Lisle · 1852not translated into EnglishLiterature