Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

About Jacques Delille

Portrait of Jacques Delille

Jacques Delille (French: [dəlil]; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the...

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