Louis Le Laboureur
Appearance
Louis Le Laboureur | |
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Born | 1615 |
Died | 1679 Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France |
Occupation | Poet |
Relatives | Claude Le Laboureur (paternal uncle) Jean Le Laboureur (brother) |
Louis Le Laboureur (1615–1679) was a French poet.
Early life
[edit]Louis Le Laboureur was born in 1615 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France.[1] His paternal uncle, Claude Le Laboureur, was the provost of the Abbey of Île Barbe on the Île Barbe in Lyon and a book collector.[2] His brother, Jean Le Laboureur, was a historian.[2]
Career
[edit]Le Laboureur was a poet. His best-known poems are Charlemagne, La Promenade de Saint-Germain, and Les victoires du Duc d'Anguien.[2] He was also the author of a treatise on the superiority of the French language over Latin.[2]
Death
[edit]Le Laboureur died in 1679 in Montmorency, France.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Louis Le Laboureur (1615?-1679)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Lambert, Claude-François (1751). Histoire littéraire du regne de Louis XIV. Paris: Prault fils. p. 492. Retrieved December 22, 2015.