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Louis-Pierre Baour (24 March 1770, Toulouse - 18 December 1854, Paris) was a French poet and writer. He wrote under the names Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, Louis-Pierre-Marie-François, Pierre-Marie-François-Louis or Pierre-Marie-Louis Baour-Lormian.

Contents 1 Life 2 Main works 3 External links 4 Source

[edit] Life

He first published satires, then in 1975 translations in verse of Ossian's Jerusalem Delivered and Poems. He successfully put on a production of the tragedy of Omasis, ou Joseph en Égypte as well as the operas La Jérusalem délivrée, Aminte, and Alexandre à Babylone. He worked in all the literary genres, even in epic poetry (l’Atlantide, 1812). In 1819, he redid his translation of Torquato Tasso, which remains his main work. In his last years, having gone blind, he put the poem of Job into verse.

He was elected a member of the Académie française on 29 March 1815.

[edit] Main works

• Poésies Galiques (1801)
• Omasis (1806)
• Mahomet II (1810)
• Veillées poétiques (1811)
• Fêtes de l'Hymen
• La Jérusalem délivrée Opera, translation of Jerusalem Delivered (1812)
• Poésies d'Ossian (1827), verse translation of the works of Ossian

[edit] External links

• Académie française

Preceded by Stanislas de Boufflers

Seat 9 of the Académie française 1815-1854

Succeeded by François Ponsard

[edit] Source

• This article uses text from the Dictionnaire Bouillet.