Alphonse Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine by François Gérard (1831)
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Member of the National Assembly for Saône-et-Loire |
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In office 8 July 1849 – 2 December 1851 |
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| Succeeded by | End of the Second Republic |
| Constituency | Mâcon |
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In office 24 February 1848 – 11 May 1848 |
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| Prime Minister | Jacques-Charles Dupont |
| Preceded by | François Guizot (also Prime Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Jules Bastide |
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Member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône |
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In office 4 May 1848 – 26 May 1849 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Marcellin Rulhières |
| Constituency | Marseille |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Saône-et-Loire |
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In office 4 November 1837 – 24 February 1848 |
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| Preceded by | Claude-Louis Mathieu |
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| Constituency | Mâcon |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Nord |
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In office 7 January 1833 – 3 October 1837 |
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| Constituency | Bergues |
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine 21 October 1790 Mâcon, Burgundy, France |
| Died | 28 February 1869 (aged 78) Paris, Île-de-France, French Empire |
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Legitimist (1833–1837) Third Party (1837–1848) Moderate Republican (1848–1851) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Elisa Birch (m. 1820; her d. 1863) |
| Children | Felix Marie Louise |
| Education | Belley College |
| Profession | Writer, poet |
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| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Novel, poetry, history, theatre, biography |
| Subject | Nature, love, spiritualism |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Notable works | Graziella (1852) |
| Years active | 1811–1869 |
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, Knight of Pratz (French: [alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869), was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Lamartine was born in Mâcon, Burgundy, on 21 October 1790. His family were members of the French provincial nobility, and he spent his youth at the family estate. Lamartine is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, "Le lac" ("The Lake"), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms. Raised a devout Catholic, Lamartine became a pantheist, writing Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange. He wrote Histoire des Girondins in 1847 in praise of the Girondists.
Lamartine made his entrance into the field of poetry by a masterpiece, Les Méditations Poétiques (1820), and awoke to find himself famous. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1825. He worked for the French embassy in Italy from 1825 to 1828. In 1829, he was elected a member of the Académie française. He was elected a deputy in 1833. In 1835 he published the "Voyage en Orient", a brilliant and bold account of the journey he had just made, in royal luxury, to the countries of the Orient, and in the course of which he had lost his only daughter. From then on he confined himself to prose.
He was briefly in charge of the government during the turbulence of 1848. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 24 February 1848 to 11 May 1848. Due to his great age, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Chairman of the Provisional Government, effectively delegated many of his duties to Lamartine. He was then a member of the Executive Commission, the political body which served as France's joint Head of State.
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