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Pierre Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873)
Lebrun, Pierre Antoine (lė-bru
‘). A French poet; born at Paris, Nov. 29, 1785; died there, May 27, 1873. For his ‘Ode to the Grand Army’ (1805), Napoleon conferred on him a pension of 6,000 francs a year; and his ‘Ode on the Campaign of 1807’ won for him the place of chief collector of indirect taxes. He was elected to the Academy on the publication of his ‘Travels in Greece’ (1828). He wrote several mediocre tragedies; his ‘Mary Stuart’ (1820), which still holds a place in the French theatrical repertoire, is half imitation, half translation, of Schiller’s play.