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.
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[edit] Life
Baour-Lormian was born at Toulouse.
He first published satires, then in translations in verse (1795) of Ossian's poems and of Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered. He successfully put on a production of the tragedy of Omasis, ou Joseph en Égypte as well as the operas La Jérusalem délivrée, Aminte, and Alexandre à Babylone. He worked in all the literary genres, even in epic poetry (L'Atlantide, 1812). In 1819, he redid his translation of Torquato Tasso, which remains his main work. In his last years, having gone 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.
[edit] Main 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)
[edit] Sources
- This article uses text from the Dictionnaire Bouillet.
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Pierre-Marie-Louis Baour-Lormian at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- Académie française
| Preceded by Stanislas de Boufflers |
Seat 9 of the Académie française 1815-1854 |
Succeeded by François Ponsard |
