Everything about Marceline Desbordes-valmore totally explained
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (
June 20,
1786 -
July 23,
1859) was a
French poet.
She was born in
Douai. Following the
French Revolution, her family emigrated to
Guadeloupe. In
1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.
She published
Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in
1819. Her melancholy, elegiaical poems are admired for their grace and profound emotion.
Marceline appearred as an actress and singer in Douai,
Rouen, the '
Opéra-Comique' in Paris, and '
Théâtre de la Monnaie in
Brussels, where she notably played
Rosine in
Beaumarchais's
le Barbier de Séville. She retired from the stage in
1823.
Her poetry is also known for being dark and depressing which reflects her troubled and hard-luck life. She is the only female writer included in the famous
Les poètes maudits anthology published by
Paul Verlaine in
1884.
She died in
Paris.
Bibliography
- Élégies et romances (1819)
- Elégies et Poésies nouvelles (1825)
- Poésies Inédites (1830)
- Les Pleurs (1833)
- Pauvres Fleurs (1839)
- Bouquets et prières (1843)
- Poésies posthumes (1860, posthumous)
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