Étienne-Augustin de Wailly[1] (1 November 1770 – 15 May 1821) was a 19th-century French poet.
The son of the grammarian Noël François de Wailly (1724–1801), he translated three of the four books of the Odes by Horace (Paris, 1817–1818, 3 part. in-18). He collaborated with the Mercure de France (1802-1810). He also authored a Dictionnaire des rimes (1812, in-8).
References
edit- ^ The "de" in the name "de Wailly" is not a particle but finds its origin in the Flemish definite article der. It is therefore appropriate to say de Wailly and not Wailly and put it accordingly in alphabetical order.
Sources
edit- Jacques-Alphonse Mahul, Annuaire nécrologique, ou Supplément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnaires historiques, 2e année, 1821, Paris : Ponthieu, 1822, (p. 305–306) [1]