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buried in the church of La Trinita de' Monti by the side of Claude
Lorraine.
A careful analysis and criticism of his principal works will be found
in Meyer's _Geschichte der franzosischen Malerei_.
GUERIN DU CAYLA, GEORGES MAURICE DE (1810-1839), French poet, descended
from a noble but poor family, was born at the chateau of Le Cayla in
Languedoc, on the 4th of August 1810. He was educated for the church at
a religious seminary at Toulouse, and then at the College Stanislas,
Paris, after which he entered the society at La Chesnaye in Brittany,
founded by Lamennais. It was only after great hesitation, and without
being satisfied as to his religious vocation, that under the influence
of Lamennais he joined the new religious order in the autumn of 1832;
and when, in September of the next year, Lamennais, who had come under
the displeasure of Rome, severed connexion with the society, Maurice de
Guerin soon followed his example. Early in the following year he went to
Paris, where he was for a short time a teacher at the College Stanislas.
In November 1838 he married a Creole lady of some fortune; but a few
months afterwards he was attacked by consumption and died on the 19th of
July 1839. In the _Revue des deux mondes_ for May 15th, 1840, there
appeared a notice of Maurice de Guerin by George Sand, to which she
added two fragments of his writings--one a composition in prose entitled
the _Centaur_, and the other a short poem. His _Reliquiae_ (2 vols.,
1861), including the _Centaur_, his journal, a number of his letters and
several poems, was edited by G. S. Trebutien, and accompanied with a
biographical and critical notice by Sainte-Beuve; a new edition, with
the title _Journal, lettres et poemes_, followed in 1862; and an English
translation of it was published at New York in 1867. Though he was
essentially a poet, his prose is more striking and original than his
poetry. Its peculiar and unique charm arises from his strong and
absorbing passion for nature, a passion whose intensity reached almost
to adoration and worship, but in which the pagan was more prominent than
the moral element. According to Sainte-Beuve, "no French poet or
painter has rendered so well the feeling for nature--the feeling not so
much for details as for the ensemble and the divine universality, the
feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life."
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