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The only son of Andre Marie Ampere was born at Lyon. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. Returning to France in 1830, he delivered a series of lectures on Scandinavian and early German poetry at the Athenaeum in Marseilles. The first of these was printed as De l'Histoire de la poésie (1830), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics.

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France. A journey in northern Africa (1841) was followed by a tour in GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania and Italy, in company with Prosper Merimée and others. This bore fruit in his Voyage dantesque (printed in his Grèce, Rome et Dante, 1848), which did much to popularize the study of DanteDante Alighieri (May/June 1265 September 13/14, 1321) was a Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia The Divine Comedy , is a culminating statement of the medieval world view and the basis of the modern Italian language. Life Early life and in France.

In 1848 he became a member of the Académie françaiseThe Academie francaise (French Academy) is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Academie, limited to forty members, has the task of acting as an official authority on the language, even though it has no enf, and in 1851 he visited America. From this time he was occupied with his chief work, L'Histoire romaine à RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman (4 vols., 1861-1864), until his death at PauPau is a city of southwestern France, prefecture (capital) of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement''. Population (1999): 78,732. Pau was the capital of the former province of Bearn. The chateau was the birthplace of Henry IV of France ( 1553- 1610) and of.

The Correspondance et souvenirs (2 vols.) of A-M and J-J Ampère (1805-1854) was published in 1875. Notices of J-J Ampère are to be found in Sainte-BeuveCharles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ( December 23, 1804 October 13, 1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. He was born in Boulogne, and studied at the College Charlemagne in Paris. He became friendly with Victor Hug's Portraits littéraires, vol. iv., and Nouveaux Lundis, vol. xiii.; and in P Merimée's Portraits historiques et littéraires (2nd ed., 1875).

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