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Hippolyte Buffenoir
1847–1928
A French man of letters with a strong interest in ideas and history, he moved between poetry, literary criticism, and studies of the French Revolution. His books on figures such as Rousseau and Robespierre show a writer drawn to both emotion and historical detail.
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Amôres d'um deputado
by Hippolyte Buffenoir
About the author
Born in Vougeot, in Côte-d'Or, on October 16, 1847, and dying in Paris on July 3, 1928, Hippolyte-François-Philibert Buffenoir was a French professor of philosophy, historian, writer, and poet. He built a varied literary career that joined reflective scholarship with a more personal, poetic side.
Buffenoir published several volumes of verse, including Les premiers baisers, Les allures viriles, La vie ardente, and Cris d'amour et d'orgueil. He also wrote literary studies such as De Chateaubriand à Ernest Renan, showing his interest in French writers and intellectual life.
He is especially remembered for historical and iconographic work on major figures of the French past, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre, and Saint-Just. That mix of poetry, criticism, and historical research gives his work a distinctive place among late 19th- and early 20th-century French authors.