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{{short description|French poet}}
{{infobox writer
| name = Maurice de Guérin
| image = Maurice de Guérin.jpg
| birth_name = Georges-Maurice de Guérin
| birth_date = 4 August 1810
| birth_place = [[Andillac]], [[Tarn (department)|Tarn]], France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1839|7|19|1810|8|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Andillac, Tarn, France
| occupation = Poet
| education = [[Collège Stanislas de Paris]]
}}

'''Georges-Maurice de Guérin''' (4 August 1810{{snd}}19 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by [[pagan]] elements. According to [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve|Sainte-Beuve]], no French poet or painter rendered "the feeling for nature, the feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life" as well as Guérin.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Guérin du Cayla, Georges Maurice de|volume=12|page=671}}</ref>

==Biography==
Descended from nobility, Maurice de Guérin was born at the château of Le Cayla in [[Andillac]], [[Tarn (department)|Tarn]]. He was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family and educated at a religious seminary in [[Toulouse]] before attending the [[Collège Stanislas de Paris]], where he met lifelong friend [[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly]].

After graduating from Collége Stanislas in 1831, Guérin decided against a traditional religious life and instead went to [[Brittany]] to enter a radical [[Christian socialist]] society founded by [[Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais]]. However, Lamennais came into conflict with the [[Holy See]] in 1833 and the society was disbanded, with Lamennais and Guérin severing their ties altogether with Christianity. Guérin then moved to Paris, where he composed his two major works, ''La Bacchante'' and ''Le Centaure'', but became sick in 1837. He partially recovered from his illness in 1838 and in November of that year agreed to an arranged marriage with Caroline de Gervain, a noble lady of some fortune. However, he soon fell ill again and died of [[tuberculosis|consumption]] in July 1839 at the young age of 28. None of his works had been published.<ref>{{cite book|title=French Writers|series=Literary Criticism|volume=2|first=Henry|last=James|publisher=Library of America|date=1984|page=441}}</ref> He destroyed many of his poems before his death.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Vest|first=James M.|date=1983|title=A Reappraisal of Maurice de Guérin's "Glaucus"|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/392073|journal=The French Review|volume=56|issue=3|pages=400–410|jstor=392073|issn=0016-111X}}</ref>

==Dissemination==
Guérin's remaining works were spread between family and acquaintances all over France.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Vest|first=James M.|date=2000-03-22|title=New Light on Maurice De Guerin's Poete-Mage: Recently Recovered Lines of "Vous M'avez Invite ..."|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-70637011/new-light-on-maurice-de-guerin-s-poete-mage-recently|journal=Nineteenth-Century French Studies|pages=212|issn=0146-7891|archive-date=2015-10-26|access-date=2020-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026234456/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-70637011/new-light-on-maurice-de-guerin-s-poete-mage-recently|url-status=dead}}</ref> His journal went with one of his friends to Louisiana and Alabama and came back to Caen, where it survived the bombings of 1944.<ref name=":1" />

In 1840, a memorial of Maurice de Guérin was published in the ''[[Revue des deux Mondes]]'' by [[George Sand]], to which she added two fragments of his writings—one a composition in prose, and the other a short poem.<ref name=":0" /> ''Reliquiae'', a work which included Guérin's ''Le Centaure'' in addition to his journal and a number of his letters and several poems, was edited by [[Guillaume-Stanislas Trébutien|G. S. Trébutien]], accompanied with a biographical and critical notice by [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]] and published in 1861.<ref name=":0" /> A new edition, titled ''Journal, lettres et poèmes'', followed in 1862, and an English translation of the latter was published by [[Henry Holt and Company|Leypoldt and Holt]] in 1867.<ref name="EB1911" /> Guérin's sister, [[Eugénie de Guérin|Eugénie]], also published some of his works after his death.<ref>{{cite book|title=Matthew Arnold|series=Lectures and Essays in Criticism|volume=3|publisher=University of Michigan Press|date=1962|first=Robert Henry|last=Super|page=12}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Naomi Royde-Smith|Royde-Smith, Naomi]]. ''The Idol and the Shrine: Being the Story of Maurice de Guérin'' (1949)

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Maurice de Guérin |sopt=t}}

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