Robert Crewe-Milnes

“ No writer represents more perfectly than Laprade the admirable genius of French provincial life, its homely simplicity, its culture, its piety and its sober patriotism. As a poet he belongs to the school of Chateaubriand and Lamartine. Devoted to the best classical models, inspired by a sense of the ideal, and by worship of nature as revealing the divine—gifted, too, with a full faculty of expression—he lacked only fire and passion in the equipment of a romantic poet. ”

“ In 1861 he was removed from his post at Lyons owing to the publication of a political satire in verse (Les Muses d’État) , and in 1871 took his seat in the National Assembly on the benches of the Right. He died on the 13th of December 1883. ”