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Louis-Pierre Baour (24 March 1770 – 18 December 1854) was a French poet and writer. He wrote under the names Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, Louis-Pierre-Marie-François, Pierre-Marie-François-Louis or Pierre-Marie-Louis Baour-Lormian.
Académie française
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Biography
Baour-Lormian was born atToulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...
. Baour first published satires, then in translations in verse (1795) of Ossian's poems and of Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
'' Jerusalem Delivered''. He successfully put on a production of the tragedy of ''Omasis, ou Joseph en Égypte'' as well as the operas ''La Jérusalem délivrée'', ''Aminte'', and ''Alexandre à Babylone''. He worked in all the literary genres, even in epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
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(''L'Atlantide'', 1812). In 1819, he redid his translation of Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
, which remains his main work. In his last years, having gone blind, he put the poem of Job
Work or labor (or labour in British English) is intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community. In the context of economics, work can be viewed as the human activity that contr ...
into verse.
He was elected a member of the Académie Française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
on 29 March 1815. Baour-Lormian died at Paris in 1854.
Works
*''Poésies Galiques'' (1801) *''Omasis'' (1806) *''Mahomet II'' (1810) *''Veillées poétiques'' (1811) *''Fêtes de l'Hymen'' *'' La Jérusalem délivrée'' (1812, opera, translation of '' Jerusalem Delivered'') *''Poésies d'Ossian'' (1827, verse translation of the works ofOssian
Ossian (; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: ''Oisean'') is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as ''Fingal'' (1761) and ''Temora'' (1763), and later combined under t ...
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References
*External links
*Académie française
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