About Ange-François Fariau
Lived 1747 – 1810 (aged 63). Ange-François Fariau was a French linguist, poet, translator, writer and journalist.
Ange-François Fariau (; 13 October 1747 – 8 December 1810) was a French poet and translator.
Fariau was born in Blois, the son of an advisor to the king. He studied in the Jesuit college of Blois, and later at the Sainte-Barbe college in Paris. A protégé of Turgot, he went on to be a teacher in the Parisian school of rue Saint-Antoine, teaching grammar and later belles-lettres. He became well known for his translations of Ovid's works, especially Metamorphoses. Fariau also penned his own odes and poems. In 1810 he was elected to l'Académie française, but died in Paris three months later after a fall.
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Who was Ange-François Fariau?
French poet
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Ange-François Fariau was born on 13 October 1747 in Blois.
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Ange-François Fariau died on 8 December 1810 in former 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Ange-François Fariau was a linguist, poet, translator, writer and journalist.
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Ange-François Fariau was French.
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