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18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Pages in category "18th-century French poets" The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 total. ...
Voltaire used verse with great skill in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) and in le Mondain (The Man About Town), but his poetry was in the classical school of the 17th century. Only a few French poets of the 18th century have an enduring reputation; they include Jacques Delille (1738–1813), for les Jardins ...
List of poets who have written in the French language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
18th century • 19th century 20th century • Contemporary. Literature by country ... Lists of French-language poets, French novelists, French people, authors;
A great deal of 17th- and 18th-century poetry was "occasional", written to celebrate a particular event (a marriage, birth, military victory) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence (a death, military defeat), and this kind of poetry was frequent with gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king. Poetry was the chief form of 17th century theater ...
An occasional poet, he successively published verses to the Republic, to Bonaparte, who gave him a pension, and Louis XVIII, who gave him the Cross of Order of Saint Louis. During his long career, he continuously, but in vain, was a candidate to the Académie française. Augustin-Louis de Ximénès authored the expression perfidious Albion.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century French male writers and Category:18th-century French women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan. Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises on archeology, nature, travel and many other subjects; and a wide selection of highly regarded ...