Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) was a prominent French poet, politician, and historian, known for his contributions to Romantic literature. He is best known for his poetry collection "Méditations poétiques" (1820), which marked a major turning point in French romanticism. Lamartine also played a significant political role, advocating for democratic reforms and briefly serving as a leader during the 1848 French Revolution. His historical work "Histoire des Girondins" (1847) influenced revolutionary movements in France.

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I. I now undertake to write the history of a small party of men who, cast by Providence into the very centre of the greatest drama of modern times, comprise in themselves the ideas, the passions, the faults, the virtues of their epoch, and whose life and political acts forming, as we may say, the nucleus of the French Revolution, perished by the same blow which crushed the destinies of their country.... more...

INTRODUCTION It is all very well for Lamartine to explain, in his original prologue, that the touching, fascinating and pathetic story of Raphael was the experience of another man. It is well known that these feeling pages are but transcripts of an episode of his own heart-history. That the tale is one of almost feminine sentimentality is due, in some measure, perhaps, to the fact that, during his... more...