Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (; 29 November 1785 – 27 May 1873) was a French

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Biography

Lebrun was born in

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. An ''Ode à la grande armée'', mistaken at the time for the work of Écouchard Lebrun, attracted

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's attention, and secured for the author a pension of 1200 francs. Lebrun's plays, once famous, are now forgotten. They are: ''Ulysse'' (1814), ''Marie Stuart'' (1820), which obtained a great success, and ''Le Cid d'Andalousie'' (1825). Lebrun visited

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in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon, which cost him his pension. In 1825 he was the guest of

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at Abbotsford. The coronation of

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in that year inspired the verses entitled ''La Vallée de Champrosay'', which have, perhaps, done more to secure his fame than his more ambitious attempts. In 1828 appeared his most important poem, ''Le Voyage en Grèce'', and in the same year he was elected to the

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. The revolution of 1830 opened up for him a public career; in 1831 he was made director of the ''Imprimerie Royale'', and subsequently filled with distinction other public offices, becoming senator in 1853.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Ode à la Grande Armée '' (1805) * ''La Vallée de Champrosay'' (1825) * ''Le Voyage en Grèce '' (1828)

Theatre

* ''Pallas, fils d'Évandre, tragédie'' (1806) * ''Ulysse, tragédie en 5 actes'', Paris, Théâtre Français, 28 April 1814. * ''Marie Stuart, tragédie en 5 actes, d'après Frédéric Schiller, avec

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'', Paris,

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, 6 mars 1820. * ''Le Cid d'Andalousie, tragédie en cinq actes'', Paris,

, 1 March 1825.

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