Charles Hubert Millevoye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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poet from France
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Place of Birth: Abbeville, Hauts-de-France, France
About Charles Hubert Millevoye
- Charles Hubert Millevoye (24 December 1782 in Abbeville – 12 August 1816 in Paris) was a French poet several times honored by the Académie française.
- He was a transitional figure between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries as revealed in his Romantic poems.
- His poem beginning "Dans les bois l'amoureux Myrtil" (La Fauvette) is also well known as set to music in Vieille Chanson by Georges Bizet, as well as Le Mancenillier, as referred to in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine and Louis Moreau Gottschalk's serenade for piano Le Mancenillier, Op.
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