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Jean Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
Pompignan, Jean Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de (pōm-pēn-yä
‘). A French poet; born at Montauban, 1709; died in 1784. His tragedy ‘Dido’ (1734) had an extraordinary success; it was followed by ‘Zoraïde,’ tragedy; ‘The Farewell of Mars,’ comedy (1735); ‘Trip to Languedoc and Provence,’ narrative poem (1740). Some of his odes are works of consummate grace and art, e.g., the ‘Ode on the Death of Jean Jacques Rousseau.’