Hippolyte Guérin

Hippolyte-Louis Guérin de Litteau (French pronunciation: [ipɔlit lwi ɡeʁɛ̃ də lito]; 5 May 1797 – 19 December 1861) was a 19th-century French poet.

Born in Litteau, Calvados, from a family established since the 17th century in Normandy (descendant of a captain of the bourgeois of the City of Bayeux), born in the castle of Litteau, Guérin was the son of the owner and director of several metallurgical establishments, managing himself the business of the blast furnaces of Montluçon of which he was one of the founders.

His activity led him to reside for about twenty years in the Nivernais, in Decize, where he found many sources of inspiration.

Guérin is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (58th division).

[2] His daughter married sculptor Eugène-Louis Lequesne.