Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

1755–1794

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) was a French writer and fabulist from the Gard, a great-nephew by marriage of Voltaire. He served the Duke of Penthièvre and was elected to the Académie française in 1788.

His Fables (1792) are the most popular French fables after La Fontaine’s, and several of his lines became proverbs (“Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés”). He also wrote pastoral novels, comedies and the song “Plaisir d’amour”, set to music by Martini.

Best-known poems

All poems (88)

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H 1

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L 80

M 1

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