Alphonse Marie Louis de
Prat de Lamartine, October 21, 1790 Macon - 28 February 1869
Paris. De Lamartine was a politician, historian and poet.
Lamartine was born at the end of the eighteenth century
into a French Catholic and royalist noble family. During his
secondary studies, he was at a Jesuit boarding school called
the College of the "Peres de la Foi" at Belley,
until 1809. Lamartine refused to serve Napoleon because he
regarded him as a usurper. With the return of the Bourbons
to the French throne, Lamartine joined the Gardes du corps
in 1814 and accompanied Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days
War. In June of the year 1820 Lamartine married Marianne Birch
and he then entered the diplomatic service. He went to Italy
to work at the French Embassy. In that capacity he lived for
a while in Naples, Florence and Rome and and other cities.
In the meantime he was making his name as a poet. He wrote
a poem for the occasion of the coronation of Charles X in
1824 and the king rewarded him with the "Légion
d'honneur". In 1825 he published 'Le Dernier Chant du
pèlerinage de Childe Harold'. As a result of a sentence
in that work Lamartine was forced to fight a duel with an
Italian officer, Colonel Pepe, during which Lamartine was
injured. In 1829 he left Florence and Italy and went on a
special mission to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, after he
had refused a post in the Polignac government. In November
of the same year he was elected to the Académie française.
Lamartine played an important role during the February Revolution
in 1848 and was one of the first to proclaim the new provisional
government. In that government, he received the post of Minister
of Foreign Affairs (which he held from 24 February to 11 May).
Then he was elected as one of the five members of the Executive
Committee and was for several weeks one of the most important
politicians in Europe.
Lamartine died on 28 February 1869.
Alphonse de Lamartine
1790 - 1869
Below, you can see an overview of two books. He used
the divine name in his "new poetic meditations"(1823),
in the poem "the Angel - epic Fragment".
Page 89
We show this anthem, page 134-136, "Impressions
of the morning and evening", from the collection of poems
"Harmonies poétiques et religieuses" (1830)...
Page 185
Page 197
In another book: a Chrestomathie of French
writers
We find the divine name in "the Angel'
from the new poetic Meditations at page 377:
But also in the sacred poetry (Dithyramb)
from the "poetic Meditations "(1820) at page 434:
