The late Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and statesman, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Alexandre Martin. De Lamartine's '...earliest recollections, as an infant, were of the Reign of Terror, when his father, as a Royalist, was [He was appointed] Attaché to the French Legation at Florence; next, as Secretary to the Embassy at Naples; and afterwards in [His] poetic work, an imitation of Byron, was entitled the "Dernier Chant de Childe ; In this scornfully reproached the Italians with their degenerate state as a nation; and their sens
The late Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and statesman, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Alexandre Martin. De Lamartine's '...earliest recollections, as an infant, were of the Reign of Terror, when his father, as a Royalist, was [He was appointed] Attaché to the French Legation at Florence; next, as Secretary to the Embassy at Naples; and afterwards in [His] poetic work, an imitation of Byron, was entitled the "Dernier Chant de Childe ; In this scornfully reproached the Italians with their degenerate state as a nation; and their sensitive patriotism resented his which he was challenged by the Neapolitan General Pepe. A duel ensued, in which the poet was dangerously Eastern question, [and] the abolition of capital him with subjects on which he spoke with much introduced a plan to substitute for the Ottoman Empire - the fall of which he believed to be imminent - a vast European died at funeral was attended by few persons of speeches were made over the grave, but the poor country people, who had a great affection for their illustrious neighbour, crowded around the coffin and kissed it'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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