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Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) ( October 21 , 1790 - February 28 , 1869 ) was a French Writer , Poet and Politician , born in Mâcon into French provincial nobility. He is famous for his partly , writing ''Jocelyn'' and ''La Chute d'un ange''. He wrote ''Histoire des Girondins'' in 1847 in praise of the Girondists . 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 'député' in 1833 , and was briefly in charge of government during the Turbulence Of 1848 . He was Minister Of Foreign Affairs from February 24 , 1848 to May 11 , 1848. During his term as a politician in the Second Republic of France, he led efforts that eventually led to the Abolition Of Slavery and the Death Penalty , as well as the enshrinement of the right to work and the shortlived national workshop programs. A political idealist who supported Democracy and Pacifism , his moderate stance on most issues caused his followers to desert him. He was an unsuccessful candidate to the presidential election of December 10 , 1848. He subsequently retired from politics and dedicated himself to literature. He ended his life in poverty, something of a literary hack. He died in Paris . He is considered to be the first French Romantic poet (though Charles-Julien Lioult De Chênedollé was working on similar innovations at the same time), and was acknowledged by Verlaine and the Symbolists as an important influence. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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