Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French writer
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Place of Birth: Fontenoy-le-Château, Grand Est, France
About Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
- Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert (December 15, 1750 – November 16, 1780) was a French poet born at Fontenoy-le-Château, Vosges, Lorraine. Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital.
- As an opponent of the Encyclopaedists and a panegyrist of Louis XV, he received considerable pensions.
- He died in Paris in 1780 from the results of a fall from his horse. The satiric force of one or two of his pieces, as Mon Apologie (1778) and Le Dix-huitième Siècle (1775), would alone be sufficient to preserve his reputation, which has been further increased by modern writers, who, like Alfred de Vigny in his Stello (chaps.
- 7-13), considered him a victim to the spite of his philosophic opponents.
- His best-known verses are the Ode imitée de plusieurs psaumes, usually entitled Adieux à la vie. Among his other works may be mentioned Les Familles du Darius et d'Eridame, histoire persane (1770), Le Carnaval des auteurs (1773), Odes nouvelles et patriotiques (1775).
- Gilbert's Œuvres complètes were first published in 1788.
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