Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian

French poet and writer (1770–1854)

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.

Birthplace of Pierre-Baour Lormian.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Works
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Biography

Baour-Lormian was born at Toulouse. Baour first published satires, then in translations in verse (1795) of Ossian's poems and of Torquato T*o 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 (L'Atlantide, 1812). In 1819, he redid his translation of Torquato T*o, which remains his main work. In his last years, having gone blind, he put the poem of Job into verse.

He was elected a member of the Académie Française 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 of Ossian)

References

  • :This article:incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain::Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Ch*ang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |*le= (help)

External links

  • Works by or about Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian at Internet Archive
  • Académie française

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