François Coppée
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French poet and novelist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, François Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist. Biography Coppée was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school. His first printed verses date from 1864. In 1869, his "Poème modernes" were quite successful. In the same year, Coppée's first play, Le Passant, starring Sarah Bernhardt and Madame Agar, was received with approval at the Odéon theatre, and later Fais ce que dois and Les Bijoux de la délivrance , short poetic dramas inspired by the Franco-Prussian War, were applauded.
