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French poet
Louis Le Laboureur
Born1615
Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France
Died1679 (aged 63–64)
Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France
OccupationPoet
RelativesClaude Le Laboureur (paternal uncle)
Jean Le Laboureur (brother)

Louis Le Laboureur (1615 – 1679) was a French poet.

Early life

Louis Le Laboureur was born in 1615 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France. His paternal uncle, Claude Le Laboureur, was the provost of the Abbey of Île Barbe on the Île Barbe in Lyon and a book collector. His brother, Jean Le Laboureur, was a historian.

Career

Le Laboureur was a poet. His best-known poems are Charlemagne, La Promenade de Saint-Germain, and Les victoires du Duc d'Anguien. He was also the author of a treatise on the superiority of the French language over Latin.

Death

Le Laboureur died in 1679 in Montmorency, France.

References

  1. ^ "Louis Le Laboureur (1615?-1679)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  2. ^ Lambert, Claude-François (1751). Histoire littéraire du regne de Louis XIV. Paris: Prault fils. p. 492. Retrieved December 22, 2015.


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