Lamartine
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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They were latter-day Romantics, growing up on the writers Lamartine, Vigny and Victor Hugo.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
Hundreds of people gathered at the Lamartine bookshop to greet the former leader despite the verdict, something Sarkozy said was “very moving and very reassuring, regarding the state of the country’s morale. People aren’t fooled.”
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2021
But drawing was an obsession, as indicated at Werner by a skillful portrait from his teenage years of the French poet Lamartine, lavishly attired and brooding beside a bush.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
Look at the gentlemen involved, Alexander I, tsar of Russia, the Duke of Wellington, the devious and eternal Talleyrand, accompanied by a poet and a writer, De Lamartine and Chateaubriand.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
"Lamartine," he said, "desired to make restitution—but to do it in his own person was not permitted him."
From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold
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