Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (3 March 1782, Abbeville – 22 January 1870, Paris) was a French a man of letters and poet. He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1830.
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville was mayor of Neuilly-l'Hôpital, where his father owned a castle, from 1807 to 1828, then of Nanterre between 1832 and 1839. He was elected member of the Académie Française in 1830. He became curator at the Sainte-Geneviève Library in 1846 and at the National Library in 1851. He was elected general councillor of the Seine department for the canton of Courbevoie in 1860.
Sanson de Pongerville is best known for his translations of Lucretius, Virgil and Milton. He was himself the author of poems of classical style.
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- Works by Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville at Gallica
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