Excerpt from GraziellaIn 1825 a coronation ode, le Sacre de Charles X, and a sequel to Byron, le Dernier Chant du Pèlerinage d'harold. In 1829 a new collection, les Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. He had married Marian Birch, the daughter of an English officer, in 1820, and turned diplomat, serving his country at Flor ence with considerable distinction, for he was a man of fine presence and polished manners. In 1830 he was admitted to the French Academy. The oration which he delivered on this occasion is notable for the attempt the orator makes in it to reconcile the older, or classical, school of literature with the younger, or romantic. The majority of the Academy were partisans of the Classicists. He urged them to extend a welcoming hand to the Romanticists.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.