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il;ois Boucher (1703-1770) was a painter of pastoral and genre subjects.
PIERRE DUPONT.
1821-1870.
He enjoyed a moment of great popularity about 1848, paid for since by being too much forgotten. His chansons are simple, sincere, and sweet, breathing a delight in rural life and sympathy with the lot of the poor. Works: Chansons, 1860; _Chansons et poésies_ is the title of the current edition of his poems.
For reference: Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. iv.
ANDRÉ LEMOYNE.
1822.
Has achieved especial success by his poetic descriptions of nature, which proceed from a close and loving observation and a quick responsiveness to her moods. Works: Stella Maris.--Ecce Homo, etc., 1860; les Roses d'Antan_, 1865; _les Charmeuses_, 1867; Légendes des Bois et Chansons marines_, 1871; Fleurs des ruines_, 1888; Fleurs du soir_, 1893.
232. 12. CHANSON MARINE. CAP FRÈHEL, on the north coast of Brittany, just south of the Channel Islands. 24. GRANVILLE and AVRANCHES are small towns on the Channel coast, between St. Malo and Cherbourg. 26. The ORNE and VIRE are small streams flowing northward into the Channel in the same region.
THEODORE DE BANVILLE.
1823-1891.
A precocious and voluminous writer, who delighted in playing with the technical difficulties of lyric forms. His devotion to form was his chief excellence and gave him a considerable influence on the group of Parnassiens. He was especially responsible for the revival of the fixed forms of the older French poetry. He took up and developed the dictum of Saint-Beuve that rhyme is "l'unique harmonie du vers" and his Odes funambulesques sought even to make it a main means of comic effect. His work is deficient in substance.
Works : Les Cariatides_, 1842; _les Stalactites_, 1846; _Odelettes, 1856; Odes funambulesques_, 1857; les Exil&ea