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Marquis Louis de Fontanes (1757–1821)
Fontanes, Marquis Louis de (fôn-tän’). A French poet and statesman; born at Niort, March 6, 1757; died on March 17, 1821. Returning from exile in England, he attained high office under Napoleon and the Bourbons. He was a brilliant orator and literary critic; and wrote several graceful descriptive poems—among them ‘The Forest of Navarre’ (1778); ‘The Carthusian Nun’; and ‘All Souls’ (1796), an imitation of Gray’s ‘Elegy’—and a translation of Pope’s ‘Essay on Man.’