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Franois Edouard Joachim Coppe was a French poet and novelist.
He was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lyce SaintLouis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school. His first printed verses date from 1864. In 1869 his first play, Le Passant, was received with approval at the Odon theatre, and later Fais ce que dois and Les Bijoux de la dlivrance , short poetic dramas inspired by the FrancoPrussian War, were applauded.
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