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Jean François de La Harpe (1739–1803)
La Harpe, Jean François de (lä ärp). A French literary critic and poet; born at Paris, Nov. 20, 1739; died there, Feb. 11, 1803. After publishing several volumes of mediocre verse, he first came into notice through his tragedy ‘Warwick’ (1763), and added to his fame by a number of elegant and spirited ‘Éloges’ on French worthies. He was professor of literature in the Lycée, 1786–98, and his lectures were attended by all the fashionables of Paris; the lectures were collected and published in a series of volumes,—‘Lycée, or Course of Literature’ (1799–1805). Among his numerous works Sainte-Beuve assigns the first rank to ‘Gazette’s Prophecy.’