Chapitre 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.

PAUL DÉROULÈDE.