Lamartine

[ la-mar-teen ]

noun

1. Al·phonse Ma·rie Louis de Prat de [a, l-, fawns, m, a, -, ree, lwee d, uh, p, r, a, d, uh], 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.

Lamartine

/ lamartin /

noun

1. LamartineAlphonse Marie Louis de Prat de17901869MFrenchWRITING: poetHISTORY: historianPOLITICS: statesman Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de (alfɔ̃s mari lwi də pra də). 1790–1869, French romantic poet, historian, and statesman: his works include Méditations poétiques (1820) and Histoire des Girondins (1847)

Example Sentences

The theory runs that she visited fellow suffragette and old friend Rose Lamartine Yates, the dynamic leader of the WSPU's Wimbledon branch, in order to pick up the 'Votes for Women' banners to wave on the course.

From BBC

They were latter-day Romantics, growing up on the writers Lamartine, Vigny and Victor Hugo.

From Salon

Hundreds of people gathered at the Lamartine bookshop to greet the former leader despite the verdict, something Sarkozy said was “very moving and very reassuring, regarding the state of the country’s morale. People aren’t fooled.”

From Reuters

But drawing was an obsession, as indicated at Werner by a skillful portrait from his teenage years of the French poet Lamartine, lavishly attired and brooding beside a bush.

From New York Times

On the first of May, which happens to be Theo’s thirty-first birthday, Vincent rents the east wing of a yellow house at 2 Place Lamartine, “which contains 4 rooms, or more precisely, two, with two little rooms. It’s painted yellow outside, whitewashed inside—in the full sunshine.”

From Literature