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4 unusual facts about Leconte de Lisle


Charles Bénézit

He was a friend and publishing collaborator in Brittany of the young Leconte de Lisle, two years his junior, and the humourist N. Mille in Brittany.

Hervararkviða

The French poet Leconte de Lisle adapted the Hervararkviða as he wrote a poem entitled L’Épée d’Angantyr ("Angantyr's sword").

La fille aux cheveux de lin

Its text is the poem La fille aux cheveux de lin No. 4 of the Chansons écossaises (Scottish songs) from Charles Leconte de Lisle's Poemes antiques (Ancient poems), published by Alphonse Lemerre in Paris, 1874.

Leconte de Lisle

Among his friends in those years was the musician Charles Bénézit.



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Michel Debré

He personally fought to get Paris to create a second high school on the south of the island, in Le Tampon, when at the time there was only one, the Lycée Leconte-de-Lisle, that catered for many thousands of inhabitants.