Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset [SEP] place of death
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert".
Life.
He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his youth, which enabled him to produce his most famous poem. He was brought up by the Jesuits of Amiens. Accepted as a novice at the age of seventeen
The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift" (see also "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" 1739 — Swift did not die until 1745)
- "On Poetry: A Rhapsody", published anonymously (see also "A Rap at the Rhapsody" 1734)
Works published Other.
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, "Ver-Vert", about a parrot at a convent who shocks listeners with his bad language (some sources give the year of publication as 1734); France