Antoine-François-Marie Deschamps Saint Amand, known as Antony Deschamps and Antoni Deschamps (12 March 180028 October 1869) was a
French poet
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Antony Deschamps was born in
Paris
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, and was the brother of one of the first representatives of the Romantic movement,
Émile Deschamps
Émile de Saint-Amand Deschamps (; 20 February 179123 April 1871) was a French poet. He was born at Bourges. The son of a civil servant, he adopted his father's career, but as early as 1812 he distinguished himself by an ode, ''La Paix conquise ...
, on whom he had some literary influence. He himself wrote some poems, especially political satires, published in 1831. His partial verse translation of the ''
Divine Comedy
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'' of
Dante
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...
, published in 1829, earned him some fame.
His poems ''Dernières Paroles'' and ''Résignation'' were republished with his brother’s in 1841.
He also worked with his friend
Hector Berlioz, and died the same year as him.
Works
*''La Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri'', translated into French verse
*''Trois satires politiques'', preceded by a prologue, 1831
*''Dernières paroles'', poems, 1835
*''Résignation'', poems, 1839
*''Poésies de Émile et Antoni Deschamps'', 1841
*''La Jeune Italie'', 1844
References
External links
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1800 births
1869 deaths
Writers from Paris
19th-century French poets
French male poets
19th-century French male writers