Jacques Delille Quotes
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
Delille, Jacques. Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de l'âme. 1794.
Iturbide, known also as Agustin I, was the first Emperor of Mexico who was executed by a firing squad.
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.
The French poet Jacques Delille (French: [dəlil]) was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne on 22 June 1738 and died in Paris on 1 May 1813. He came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. The poems on abstract themes that he published after his return were less well received.
