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Alphonse de Lamartine
1790–1869
A leading voice of French Romanticism, his poetry brought personal feeling and musical language to the center of French verse. He was also deeply involved in public life, moving from literary fame into a major political role during the Revolution of 1848.
33 Audiobooks
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 15
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 17
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 08
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 04
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 10
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 01
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 19
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 21
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 06
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 13
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 22
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 02
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 12
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 14
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 18
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Italian tytär
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 09
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 24
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 20
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 16
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 25
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 05
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 11
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 26
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 28
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 07
by Alphonse de Lamartine
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 03
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Narrative of the residence of Fatalla Sayeghir among the wandering Arabs of the great desert
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 27
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 23
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Atheism Among the People
by Alphonse de Lamartine
About the author
Born in Mâcon in 1790, Alphonse de Lamartine became one of the writers who helped define French Romanticism. His collection Méditations poétiques (1820) made him famous and established his reputation for lyrical, emotional poetry.
Lamartine did not stay only in literature. He also wrote history and prose, and he entered politics, where he became an important public figure in 1848 during the founding of the French Second Republic. That mix of poet and statesman gives his life an unusual scale: he spoke to both private feeling and national events.
He died in Paris in 1869, but his name remains closely tied to the rise of modern French lyric poetry. Readers still return to him for the elegance, melancholy, and sincerity that made his work stand out in his own time and beyond.