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Louis, marquis de Fontanes

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Born:
March 6, 1757, Niort, France
Died:
March 17, 1821, Paris (aged 64)

Louis, marquis de Fontanes (born March 6, 1757, Niort, France—died March 17, 1821, Paris) was a French man of letters who represented Catholic and conservative opinion during the First Empire and was appointed grand master of the University of Paris by Napoleon. As a young man, Fontanes lived in Paris and associated with the important literary figures of the time. When the Revolution came, he at first enthusiastically supported it, expressing his sentiments in Poème séculaire, ou chant pour la Fédération du 14 Juillet (1790) and editing a newspaper, Modérateur, in Lyon. Eventually, however, the excesses of the Revolution disgusted ...(100 of 293 words)

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