Alphonse de Lamartine,
Writer, Poet, Politician, Statesman and Nobility
Co-Founder of the Second Republic
Philosophers and
Historians are the most apt people to project the collective intellectual
essence of mankind. They embody the
spirit and educate the mind of humanity. They pave a perspective of past
pathways on which we can move across our present and use their wisdom as a
torch to light our future. And that is why their choices for the great among
men, and their judgment of their deeds in setting off mankind’s great triumphs,
trials and tribulations do count.
Great philosophers
and thinkers have rendered judgments on Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. In
reading Alphonse de Lamartine, we stand before a judge, from the age of
enlightenment; a Writer, a Poet, a Politician and Revolutionary nobility with
power, wisdom, leadership and certitude.
Alphonse de
Lamartine, as were all French men of his genre, was born and raised Catholic,
but turned Pantheist Naturalist; which is the more moderate form of Pantheism;
an arcane, little known semi-extinct faith. He is the author of the poetic
masterpiece “Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange” and wrote Histoire des Girondins,
which topped the greatest of French literary works and earned him an
unprecedented membership in France’s most prestigious Académie Française.
He was chosen premier
for a time of turmoil for France and held the dossier of France’s Minister of
Foreign Affairs. But his political career reached panacea when he was appointed
member of France’s Supreme Executive Committee and was instrumental in laying
the foundation of the Second Republic.
With such eminent
curriculum vitae, it is hardly surprising that he should have no difficulty
recognizing greatness when it came before his notice.
