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5 unusual facts about Alphonse de Lamartine


277 Elvira

Elvira is possibly named for a character in Alphonse de Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques (1820) and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1830).

Coarctation of the aorta

An anecdotal history statement describes the first diagnosed case of the coarctation of the Aorta in Julia the daughter of the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine after the autopsy in 1832 in Beirut, the reference manuscript still exists in one of the Maronite monasteries in Mount Lebanon.

Gabriele Pepe

On February 19, 1826, he duelled with the poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who had compared Italians to "human dust" in his poem "Le Dernier Chant du pélerinage d'Harold".

Lamartine Place Historic District

The name honored the French writer, poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine, who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic.

Lamartine, Wisconsin

Named after Alphonse de Lamartine, the French poet and historian, who sprang into such wonderful popularity during the French Revolution of 1848.


Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She maintained friendships with Hugo, Sue, Dumas and others, including Lajos Kossuth, Alphonse de Lamartine, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, Henri Rochefort, Tony Revillon, and the United States minister to Sardinia, John Moncure Daniel.


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