Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry
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Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry (28 December 1769 – 7 November 1859), was a French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry.
Life
[edit]Hilarion was born in Rennes in Brittany. Coming to Paris in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. After being twice imprisoned during the Reign of Terror he retired to his native region, where he devoted himself to literature until 1814.[1]
In 1818, after the Bourbon Restoration, he returned to Paris as deputy for Finistère, and sat in the Chamber of Deputies until 1824, becoming one of the recognized liberal leaders. He was re-elected in 1827, took an active part in the establishment of the July Monarchy, was appointed a councillor of state (1830), and in 1837 was made a Peer of France.[1]
A member of the French National Assembly during the Second French Republic, he retired from public life after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte coup d'etat of 1851. He died in Port-Marly.
Works
[edit]- Contes et Idylles (1791)
- Lysus et Cydippe (a poem; 1801)
- Inductions morales et physiologiques (1817)
- Documents pour servir à l'histoire de France (1820)
- Du Beau dans les arts d'imitation (1822)
- Le Dernier des Beaumanoir (1824)
- Clarisse (a novel; 1854)[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kératry, Auguste Hilarion, Comte de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 753.
- 1769 births
- 1859 deaths
- Writers from Rennes
- Counts of the First French Empire
- 19th-century French historians
- French literary critics
- 18th-century French novelists
- 19th-century French novelists
- 18th-century French politicians
- People of the French Revolution
- Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy
- French male essayists
- French male poets
- French male novelists
- French male short story writers
- 19th-century French short story writers
- 19th-century French male writers
- 18th-century French essayists
- 19th-century French essayists
- 18th-century French male writers