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Victor de Laprade (1812–1883)
Laprade, Victor de (lä-präd’). A French poet; born at Montbrison, Jan. 13, 1812; died at Lyons, Dec. 13, 1883. His earliest poems, as ‘Magdalen’s Precious Ointment’ (1839), ‘Jesus’s Wrath’ (1840), showed very plainly the influence of Lamartine; and to the end Lamartine was his model. Besides several volumes of lyric poems,—‘Psyche’ (1841); ‘Odes and Poems’ (1844); ‘Evangelic Poems’ (1852); ‘Heroic Idylls’ (1858),—he wrote the tragedy ‘Harmodius’ (1870), and several works in prose: ‘Questions of Art and Morals’ (1861); ‘Liberal Education’ (1873); ‘Essays in Idealist Criticism’ (1882).