Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
Illustration — Nicolas Gilbert Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert (December 15, 1750 – November 16, 1780) was a French poet born in Fontenoy-le-Château, Vosges, Lorraine. Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital. He died in Paris in 1780 from the results of a fall from his horse.
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Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
- Born
- 1750 · Fontenoy-le-Château.
- Died
- 1780 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Nicolas Gilbert Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert (December 15, 1750 – November 16, 1780) was a French poet born in Fontenoy-le-Château, Vosges, Lorraine. Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital. He died in Paris in 1780 from the results of a fall from his horse.
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Born at Fontenoy-le-Château in 1750, died in Paris in 1780.
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- 1.Jean Marie Bernard Clément. Tableau annuel de la littérature. Emery. 3-4. 1801. 28921711.
- 2.Grosso modo, l’Année Littéraire se place du côté des anti-philosophes, le Mercure de France du côté des philosophes, mais la frontière est en réalité bien plus floue ou plus subtile.
- 3.Résultats pour «monvoisin» - Les collections du musée de l’Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris. musee-collections.aphp.fr.
- 4.Les Vosges écrit par François de Neufchateau et déclamé pour la fête de la fondation de la République à Épinal en 1796.
- 5.La Lanterne, 22 juillet 1897, p. 1, La statue de Gilbert.
- 6.L'Est Républicain, 11 février 1898, Le monument de Gilbert, col.2
- 7.Revue de Champagne et de Brie : histoire, biographie, archéologie, documents inédits, bibliographie, beaux-arts, p.757, éd. Léon Frémont, 1898
- 8.Georges Moreau, Pierre Larousse, Revue universelle: recueil documentaire universel et illustré, p. 762, éd. Larousse., 1898
- 9.Le Pays lorrain : revue régionale bimensuelle illustrée, p. 126, 1953
- 10.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Elysées, P. 408, Éd.Charles de Mourgues frères, 1873
- 11.Jean Bossu, Chronique des rues d'Épinal, tome I, Épinal, 1976, 122-124.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 12
- Poètes et romanciers de la Lorraine, Théodore Puymaigre, éd. Pallez et Rousseau, 1848.
- Les Échos de ma lyre, Gilbert, p. 159-167, Augustin Devoille, éd. J. Vermot, Paris, 1859.
- Journal de la Société d'archéologie et du comité du Musée lorrain, Société d'archéologie lorraine, 1862.
- Annales de la Société d'émulation du département des Vosges, 1893.
- Le Poète Gilbert, Nicolas-Joseph-Florent, (1750-1780), étude biographique et littéraire, Ernest Laffay, éd.Bloud et Barral, 1899.
- Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert : l'œuvre satirique, thèse de doctorat, Bernard Visse, université de Nancy, 1986.
- Dictionnaire des littératures de Lorraine, Michel Caffier, éd. Serpenoise, 2003.
- La Malédiction littéraire : du poète crotté au génie malheureux, Pascal Brissette, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, coll. « Socius », 2005, .
- La Clé de mon âme, nouvelle, Bernard Visse, ed. U.E.V, nº 15, 2007.
- Un poète vosgien oublié, Nicolas Gilbert de Fontenoy-le-Château, Marie-Louise Jacotey, dans La Nouvelle revue Lorraine, nº 20, , p.41-46.
- Nicolas Gilbert le poète malheureux ?, Véronique André-Durupt, dans L’Écho des 3 Provinces, nº 192, février- , p. 3.
- Nicolas Gilbert, Œuvres complètes, Sans titre aux portes de la gloire, édition critique de Bernard Visse, éd. Classiques Garnier, Constitution de la modernité, nº 39, 2023, .
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