1846.
The son of poor peasants, he has perpetuated the scenes and the simple
life of his boyhood and the poverty and rude toil of his country home
in verse of deep, pure, and tender feeling.
Works: _La Poésie des Bêtes_, 1886; _le Clocher_, 1887; _la Bonne
terre_, 1889; _Voix rustiques_, 1892; these are collected in the
edition of _Poésies_, 2 vols., 1891-94. 293. LES GENÊTS. From _le
Clocher_.