Pierre Dupont
Born: 23rd April 1821, Lyon, France
Died: 25th July 1870, Lyon, France
Nationality: French
Pierre Dupont 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.
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