Emmanuel des Essarts
Emmanuel-Adolphe Langlois des Essarts was a French poet and man of letters.Early life
Emmanuel des Essarts was born on 5 February 1839 in Paris, France. His father, Alfred Stanislas Langlois Des Essarts, was a poet and novelist of considerable reputation. The son was educated at the École Normale Supérieure.Career
He became a teacher of rhetoric and finally professor of literature at Dijon and at Clermont.
He wrote Poésies parisiennes, a volume of light verse on trifling subjects; Les Élévations, philosophical poems; Origines de la poésie lyrique en France au XVIe siècle ; Du génie de Chateaubriand ; Poèmes de la Révolution ; Pallas Athéné ; Portraits de maîtres, etc., and he was a contributor to Le Parnasse contemporain.
