Alphonse de Lamartine, who had been elected…
November 1830 CE
Alphonse de Lamartine, who had been elected to the Academie Francaise the previous year, publishes his Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, expressing plaintive and melancholy sentiments in melodious verse.
Abandoning his diplomatic career in Naples for national politics, he fails to win election as a deputy in the new French government.