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Arnault, which should be consulted.
FRANÇOIS-RENÉ, VICOMTE DE CHAUTEAUBRIAND.
1768-1848.
An enormous literary force at the beginning of this century; M. E. Faguet calls him the "greatest date in French letters since the Pleiad." But the instrument of his power was prose. His attempts in verse were poor. Yet he exercised a direct influence towards the renewal of lyric poetry, as has been indicated in the introduction.
For reference: E. Faguet, _Études littéraires sur le dix-neuvième siècle_, 1887 ; F. Brunetière, _l'Évolution de la poésie lyrique au dix-neuvième siècle_, vol. i, 1894.
39. LE MONTAGNARD EXILÉ. Introduced into the prose tale, _le Dernier des Abencérages_ (1807). "J'en avais composé les paroles pour un air des montagnes d'Auvergne remarquable par sa douceur et sa simplicité." (Author's note.) 24. la Dore, a rapid stream in the department Puyde -Dôme, flowing into the Allier. 27. l'airain, i.e. the bell.
MARIE-ANTOINE DÉSAUGIERS.
1772-1827.
He represents a domain of the lyric that has always been industriously tilled in France, that of the chanson. The tradition of the song is distinctly bacchanalian, and rarely has it claimed serious consideration as literature. But Désaugiers now and then foreshadows the larger and more serious treatment the chanson was to receive at the hands of Béranger and Dupont.
Works: _Chansons et Poésies diverses_, 3 vols., 1808-1816; a _Choix de chansons_ appeared in 1858; another in 1859, and others since.
For reference: Sainte-Beuve, Portraits contemporains, vol. v; George Saintsbury, Miscellaneous Essays, London, 1892.
CHARLES NODIER.
1780-1844.
Promoted the romantic movement by his personal contact with the group of young writers that he drew around him more than by w