Philippe Habert

French poet

Philippe Habert (1604 – 26 July 1637) was a French poet.

Habert was born in Paris and was the brother to Germain Habert and cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, as well as a friend of Valentin Conrart. Philippe was also one of the first members of the Académie française, and contributed to editing its statutes. An artillery captain, he was killed aged 25 at Aimeries in Belgium, when a wall fell on him as a result of the explosion of a munitions depot in Hainaut.

See also

Guirlande de Julie

References

External links

Biography at the Académie française
The Habert de Montmor family

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Philippe Habert (1634)
Jacques Esprit (1639)
Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1678)
Claude-François Fraguier (1707)
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (1728)
Gabriel Girard (1744)
Marc Antoine René de Voyer (1748)
Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau (1787)
Charles Brifaut (1826)
Jules Sandeau (1858)
Edmond François Valentin About (1884)
Léon Say (1886)
Albert Vandal (1896)
Denys Cochin (1911)
Georges Goyau (1922)
Paul Hazard (1940)
Maurice Garçon (1946)
Paul Morand (1968)
Alain Peyrefitte (1977)
Gabriel de Broglie (2001)

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