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SOUMET, ALEXANDRE (1788-1845)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 437 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOUMET, ALEXANDRE (1788-1845) , French poet, was born on the 8th of
February
  1788 at Castelnaudary, department of Aude. His father wished him to enter the army, but an early-developed love of poetry turned the boy's ambition in other directions. He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then little known in France, and reproached Mme de Stael with lack of enthusiasm for her subject in De l'Allemagne. Soumet came to Paris in 181o, and some poems in honour of
Napoleon
  secured his nomination as auditor of the Conseil d'etat. His well-known elegy La Pauvre fille appeared in 1814, and two successful tragedies produced in 1822, Clytemnestre and Said, secured his admission to the
Academy
  in 1824. Jeanne d'Arc (1825) aroused
great
  enthusiasm, and was the best of his plays. Among his other pieces Elisabeth de France (1828), a weak imitation of Schiller's Don Carlos, may be noted, but Soumet's real bent was towards epic poetry. His most considerable
work
  is a poem inspired by Klopstock, La Divine epopee, which describes the descent of Christ into Hades. Under Louis XVIII. he became librarian of Saint-Cloud, and subsequently was transferred to
Rambouillet
  and to
Compiegne
 . He died on the 3oth of
March
  1845, leaving an unfinished epic on Jeanne d'Arc. His daughter Gabrielle (Mme Beauvain d'Altenheim) had collaborated with him in some of his later works.


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