Editing Alphonse de Lamartine (section)

===Final years and legacy===
[[Image:Lamartine photography cropped.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Alphonse de Lamartine photographed in 1865]]
He published volumes on the most varied subjects (history, criticism, personal confidences, literary conversations) especially during the Empire, when, having retired to private life and having become the prey of his creditors, he condemned himself to what he calls "literary hard-labor to exist and pay his debts". Lamartine ended his life in poverty, publishing monthly installments of the ''Cours familier de littérature'' to support himself. He died in Paris in 1869.

Nobel prize winner [[Frédéric Mistral]]'s fame was in part due to the praise of Alphonse de Lamartine in the fortieth edition of his periodical ''Cours familier de littérature'', following the publication of Mistral's long poem ''[[Mirèio]]''. Mistral is the most revered writer in modern [[Occitan literature]].

Lamartine is considered to be the first French [[Romantic poetry|romantic]] poet (though [[Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé]] was working on similar innovations at the same time), and was acknowledged by [[Paul Verlaine]] and the [[Symbolism (movement)|Symbolists]] as an important influence. [[Leo Tolstoy]] also admired Lamartine, who was the subject of some discourses in his notebooks.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Frank|first=Joseph|title=Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4008-3653-6|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=69|language=en}}</ref>