About Étienne-Augustin De Wailly
Lived 1770 – 1821 (aged 50). Étienne-Augustin De Wailly was a French poet, translator, pedagogue, philologist and writer.
Étienne-Augustin de Wailly (1 November 1770 – 15 May 1821) was a 19th-century French poet.
The son of the grammarian Noël François de Wailly (1724–1801), he translated three of the four books of the Odes by Horace (Paris, 1817–1818, 3 part. in-18). He collaborated with the Mercure de France (1802-1810). He also authored a Dictionnaire des rimes (1812, in-8).
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French poet and translator (1770-1821)
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Étienne-Augustin De Wailly was born on 1 November 1770 in Paris.
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Étienne-Augustin De Wailly died on 15 May 1821.
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Étienne-Augustin De Wailly was a poet, translator, pedagogue, philologist and writer.
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Étienne-Augustin De Wailly was French.
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