Emmanuel des Essarts
Illustration — Image of Emmanuel Des Essarts, Emmanuel-Adolphe Langlois des Essarts (5 February 1839 in Paris17 October 1909 in Clermont-Ferrand) was a French poet and man of letters.
Also recorded as Emmanuel-Adolphe Langlois des Essarts
Emmanuel des Essarts

Carjat, Etienne (Fareins, 01–04–1828 - Paris, 09–03–1906), photographe · CC0
- Full name
- Alfred Emmanuel Langlois des Essarts.
- Born
- 1839. · former 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, writer and university teacher.
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure.
- Honours
- prix de poésie de l'Académie française and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Early life
Early life
Emmanuel des Essarts was born on 5 February 1839 in Paris, France. His father, Alfred Stanislas Langlois Des Essarts (died 1893), was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation. The son was educated at the École Normale Supérieure.
Career
Career
He became a teacher of rhetoric and finally professor of literature at Dijon and at Clermont. He wrote Poésies parisiennes (1862), a volume of light verse on trifling subjects; Les Élévations (1864), philosophical poems; Origines de la poésie lyrique en France au XVI e siècle (1873); Du génie de Chateaubriand (1876); Poèmes de la Révolution (1879); Pallas Athéné (1887); Portraits de maîtres (1888), etc., and he was a contributor to Le Parnasse contemporain.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Emmanuel des Essarts was recorded at birth as Alfred Emmanuel Langlois des Essarts. The authorities additionally record the heading Emmanuel-Adolphe Langlois des Essarts. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Alfred Des Essarts. Other recorded relations include Jacques-Louis Doussin-Dubreuil.
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Emmanuel des Essarts is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as poet, writer and university teacher.
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1839
Emmanuel des Essarts born at former 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
1909
Emmanuel des Essarts died at Lempdes-sur-Allagnon.
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former 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
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Lempdes-sur-Allagnon.
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