Nicolas-Germain Léonard

Nicolas -Germain Léonard ( born March 16, 1744 Guadeloupe, † January 6, 1793 in Nantes) was a French poet and novelist of the 18th century.

His poetry is influenced by the descriptive poetry of Salomon Gessner and the genre of pastoral poetry. His two novels are written in the form of letter novels and particularly influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau sentimental epistolary novel Julie or the New Heloise.

Works

Seal

• Idylles, in 1766.
• Idylles et poésies champêtres, in 1782.

Novels

• La Nouvelle Clémentine ou Lettres de Henriette de Berville, novel, 1774th
• Lettres de deux amants, habitans de Lyon. Londres and Paris: Desenne, 1783.

Werkausgaben

• Oeuvres de Léonard, ed. by Vincent Campenon. Paris: Didot jeune, VII (1798 ).

• Nicolas -Germain Léonard, oeuvre en prose. Edited by Gwenaëlle Boucher. Paris:. L' Harmattan, Les introuvables, 2007 ( Contains the novels and short prose. )

• Nicolas -Germain Léonard, poétique oeuvre. Edited by Gwenaëlle Boucher. Paris:. L' Harmattan, Les introuvables, 2007 ( Contains the seals. )