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Michel Lentz

Died in 1893

Michel Lentz was born on 21 May 1820 in Luxembourg, rue Chimay, into a family of bakers. After the Athénée, he studied philology at the Free University of Brussels, then joined the government secretariat in 1842; in 1869, he moved to the Chamber of Accounts, where he remained until his retirement in 1892. He wrote patriotic and satirical poems and songs, gathered in collections in 1873 and 1887, and sought to express the nostalgia of the emigrants who had left for the United States. He died in Luxembourg on 7 September 1893.

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