Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny (February 6, 1753 - December 5, 1814), was born in the Isle of Bourbon. February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Years Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Réunion is an island, as well as an overseas département (département doutre-mer, or DOM) of France, located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. ...

He was sent to France at nine years old, was educated at Rennes, and in 1771 entered the army. He was, however, shortly recalled to the Isle of Bourbon, where he fell in love with a young lady whom he addresses as Eleonore. Her father refused to consent to her marriage with Parny, and she married someone else. Parny returned to France, and published his Poésies érotiques in 1778. Location within France The Parlement de Bretagne (Parliament of Brittany), the most famous building in Rennes, was rebuilt after a terrible fire in 1994. ...

He also published about the same time his Voyage de Bourgogne (1777), written in collaboration with his friend Antoine de Berlin (1752-1790); Épître aux insurgents de Boston (1777), and Opuscules poétiques (1779). In 1796 appeared La Guerre des Dieux, a poem in the style of Voltaire's Pucelle, directed against Christianity. Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher. ... Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ...

Parny devoted himself in his later years almost entirely to the religious and political burlesque. He was elected to the Academy in 1803, and in 1813 received a pension from Napoleon. In 1805 he produced an extraordinary allegoric poem attacking George III, his family and his subjects, under the eccentric title of "Goddam! Goddam! par un French-dog." Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of upper classes. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...

Parny's early love poems and elegies, however, show a remarkable grace and ease, a good deal of tenderness, and considerable fancy and wit. One famous piece, the Elegy on a Young Girl, is scarcely to be excelled in its kind.

His Œuvres choisies were published in 1827. There is a sketch of Parny in Sainte-Beuve's Portraits contemporains. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23, 1804 – October 13, 1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. ...

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