Pete dupont biography

French poet and songwriter (1821-1870)

This article is about the French songwriter.

Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV was an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 68th governor of Delaware from to A member of the Republican Party, he was the United States representative for Delaware's at-large.

Governor du Pont was born in Wilmington, Delaware on January 22, , the oldest of three children of Pierre S. du Pont III and Jane Holcomb du.

Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV (January 22, – May 8, ) was an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 68th governor of.

Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV (January 22, – May 8, ) was an American lawyer and politician.

PIERRE SAMUEL “PETE” DU PONT IV was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont, III and Jane Holcomb du Pont.

For other Pierre Duponts or Pierre DuPonts, see Pierre DuPont (disambiguation).

Pierre Dupont
Photograph by Étienne Carjat
Born	(1821-04-23)23 April 1821 Lyon, France
Died	25 July 1870(1870-07-25) (aged 49)
Nationality	French

Pierre Dupont (23 April 1821 – 25 July 1870) was a French songwriter.

Dupont was born in Lyon as the son of a blacksmith. His mother died before he was five years old, and he was brought up in the country by his godfather, a village priest. He was educated at the seminary of L'Argentière, and was afterwards apprenticed to a notary at Lyon.

In 1839 he found his way to Paris, and some of his poems were inserted, in the Gazette de France and the Quotidienne. Two years later he was saved from the conscription and enabled to publish his first volume – Les Deux Anges – through the exertions of a kinsman and of