Excerpt from Les Enfants D'�douard: Trag�die Casimir delavigne was born at Havre in 1793 and at the age of 10 was sent to the College Henri IV., then called Lyc�e Napoleon, in Paris. At first he was distinguished rather by his industry than by his talent, but at about 14 he developed exceptional ability. His chief friends at school were his elder brother Germain Delavigne and A. E. Scribe, afterwards so famous as a dramatist. While still at school, in the Lower Sixth (cf/eve rie he composed a dithyramb (1811) on the ...
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Excerpt from Les Enfants D'�douard: Trag�die Casimir delavigne was born at Havre in 1793 and at the age of 10 was sent to the College Henri IV., then called Lyc�e Napoleon, in Paris. At first he was distinguished rather by his industry than by his talent, but at about 14 he developed exceptional ability. His chief friends at school were his elder brother Germain Delavigne and A. E. Scribe, afterwards so famous as a dramatist. While still at school, in the Lower Sixth (cf/eve rie he composed a dithyramb (1811) on the birth of the King of Rome, which obtained some popularity, and gained him a patron in the person of Count Frangois, a high government official. The Count gave him a small post in the administration, which left him abundant leisure for-his literary pursuits. Two or three years later he gained the aeeemit to a prize offered by the Academy for a poem on the Discovery of Vaccination. It is essentially a prize poem, but shows abundant signs of the art of putting commonplace things in a poetical form which characterizes his maturer work. The following is a good specimen of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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