Lamartine

American  

[la-mar-teen] / la marˈtin /

noun

1. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.

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Lamartine British  

/ lamartin /

noun

1. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de (alfɔ̃s mari lwi də pra də). 1790–1869, French romantic poet, historian, and statesman: his works include Méditations poétiques (1820) and Histoire des Girondins (1847)

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Example Sentences

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

It was composed in November 1888 at Arles in Provence, where Van Gogh had rented two floors of a private house, 2 Place Lamartine, the subject of the painting La Maison Jaune.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012

Lamartine, the French trader, was dead, and had been buried that afternoon, as was customary, within an hour or two after the breath has left his body.

From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold