person
Alphonse de Lamartine
Lamartine
French Romantic poet and statesman (1790-1869); his prose portrait of Balzac gave Rodin the guiding phrase 'the face of an element.'
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §63 Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), French Romantic poet and statesman; his prose portrait gave Rodin the guiding phrase, 'He had the face of an element.'