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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780)

Gilbert, Nicolas Joseph Laurent (zhēl-bãr’). A French poet; born in Fontenoy-le-Château, Lorraine, in 1751; died insane at Paris, Nov. 16, 1780. He went to Paris in his teens to make himself a poet. The “philosophers,” who then lorded it over all forms of literature at Paris, conceived a violent hatred of his satirical productions, which handled their pet hobbies without gloves. ‘Farewells to Life,’ ‘My Apology,’ and ‘The Author’s Carnival,’ are among his best-known pieces.