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Lamartine
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La·mar·tine  (lä-mär-tn), Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de 1790-1869.
French romantic poet who served briefly as minister of foreign affairs (1848).
Lamartine (French) [lamartin]
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(Biographies / Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de (1790-1869) M, French, WRITING: poet, HISTORY: historian, POLITICS: 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)
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In the 19th century, for example, French poet Alphonse de Lamartine helped to expose Bulgaria's plight--under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire--to the rest of Europe.
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