Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian
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.
Biography
Baour-Lormian was born at
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; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French).
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