1782-1816.
Author of several poetical tales of chivalry and a considerable number
of elegies, is remembered for hardly anything but these celebrated
lines:
Works: _Oeuvres_, 5 vols., 1814-16; a collection of his _Poésies_ is
published in one volume, with a notice by Sainte- Beuve.
54. LA CHUTE DES FEUILLES. 19. ÉPIDAURE; Epidaurus, a town in Argolis
on the Saronic gulf, the chief seat of the worship of Aesculapius, the
god of the healing art.