dots-menu
×
Home  »  library  »  BIOS  »  Évariste de Parny (1753–1814)

C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Évariste de Parny (1753–1814)

Parny, Évariste Désiré Desforges, Viscomte de (pär-nē’). A French poet; born in the Isle of Bourbon, Feb. 6, 1753; died at Paris, Dec. 5, 1814. He won celebrity through his volume of ‘Erotic Poems,’ which first appeared in incomplete form 1778, completed 1781: Voltaire saluted him, “My dear Tibullus.” In 1799 he published ‘The War of the Gods,’ afterward enlarged and named ‘The Christianid’: it is a cynical and impious attack upon all religions. He published (1805) ‘The Stolen Portfolio,’ containing ‘Venus’s Disguises,’ ‘Gallantries of the Bible,’ ‘Paradise Lost.’