Leconte de Lisle, Charles Marie René
(1818–1894)
Leconte de Lisle, Charles Marie RenéLeconte Lisle, Charles Marie RenéCharles Marie René Leconte Lisle (B * SAINT-PAUL (réunion), 1818 – D † VOISINS, 1894) Son of a doctor in Napoleon's (1769 –1821) army who became a plantation owner on the island of Réunion, his mother was a cousin of Parny. He arrived in Paris in the mid–1840s, for a career in law, but his love of the classics and contemporary literature quickly steered him to a life in literature. He is the principal poet and spokesman of the…