Alphonse de Lamartine | |
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 Portrait by Ary Scheffer, 1848 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Saône-et-Loire | |
| In office 8 July 1849 – 2 December 1851 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Rolland |
| Succeeded by | End of the Second Republic |
| Constituency | Mâcon |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 24 February 1848 – 11 May 1848 | |
| Prime Minister | Jacques-Charles Dupont |
| Preceded by | François Guizot (also Prime Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Jules Bastide |
| Member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône | |
| In office 4 May 1848 – 26 May 1849 | |
| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Marcellin Rulhières |
| Constituency | Marseille |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Saône-et-Loire | |
| In office 4 November 1837 – 24 February 1848 | |
| Preceded by | Claude-Louis Mathieu |
| Succeeded by | Charles Rolland |
| Constituency | Mâcon |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Nord | |
| In office 7 January 1833 – 3 October 1837 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Lemaire |
| Succeeded by | Louis de Hau de Staplande |
| Constituency | Bergues |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine 21 October 1790 Mâcon, Burgundy, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 28 February 1869 (aged 78) Paris, French Empire |
| Political party | Social Party[1] (1833–1837) Third Party (1837–1848) Moderate Republican (1848–1851) |
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| Education | Belley College |
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| Writing career | |
| Period | 19th century |
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| Subject | Nature, love, spiritualism |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Years active | 1811–1869 |
| Notable works | Graziella (1852) |
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French: [alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869)[2] was a French author, poet, and statesman. Initially a moderate royalist Lamartine became one of the leading critics of the July Monarchy of Louis-Phillipe aligning more with the Republican Left and Social Catholicism.
He was a leading figure in the 1848 French Revolution and was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic along with the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France. During the revolutionary year of 1848 he served as Foreign Minister and frequently worked to ease tensions between the government and the working class. He was a candidate in the 1848 French presidential election but lost to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. After the election he retired from political life.
- ^ Jenson, Deborah (2001). Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 152–154. ISBN 9780801867231.
- ^ Carruth, Gorton (1993). The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. New York: HarperCollins. p. 492. ISBN 9780062700124.