Auguste Hilarion, comte

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 de Kératry (December 28, 1769 - November 7, 1859), was a French

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 poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry

Émile de Kératry

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Life

Hilarion was born in Rennes

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 in Brittany

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. Coming to Paris

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 in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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. After being twice imprisoned during the Reign of Terror

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 he retired to his native region, where he devoted himself to literature until 1814.

In 1818, after the Bourbon Restoration

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, he returned to Paris as deputy for Finistère

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, and sat in the Chamber of Deputies

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 until 1824, becoming one of the recognized liberal

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 leaders. He was re-elected in 1827, took an active part in the establishment of the July Monarchy

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, was appointed a councillor of state (1830), and in 1837 was made a Peer of France

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A member of the French National Assembly

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 during the Second French Republic, he retired from public life after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoleon III of France

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 coup d'etat

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of 1851. He died in Port-Marly.

Works

• Contes ci Idylles (1791)
• Lysus et Cydippe (a poem; 1801)
• Inductions morales et physiologiques (1817)
• Documents pour servir a l'histoire de France (1820)
• Du Beau dans les arts d'imitation (1822)
• Le Dernier des Beaumanoir (1824)
• Clarisse (a novel; 1854)