Desfontaines
Desfontaines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (known as Desfontaines-Lavallée or Desfontaines, 1733-1825), French writer and playwright. * Henri Desfontaines (1876-1931), French film director, actor and scriptwriter * Jean Desfontaines (c. 1658–1752), French Baroque composer * Pierre Desfontaines (1685-1745), French journalist * René Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in bot ...

Pierre Desfontaines
The Abbé Pierre François Guyot-Desfontaines (1685 in Rouen – 16 December 1745 in Paris) was a French journalist, translator and popular historian. Known today for his quarrels with Voltaire, Desfontaines can be regarded as the founder of the new literary criticism and journalism in France, insofar as he sought to found his criticism on aesthetic and ethical lines, rather than merely summarising, reproducing or paraphrasing. Biography Desfontaines entered the order of Jesuits after being raised by them, and taught rhetoric in Bourges before devoting himself exclusively to letters until 1715. In 1724, he became a contributor to the Journal des scavans, attempting to introduce an amenity of style into his scientific articles, avoiding dryness and pedantry. He then published, with various collaborators such as Élie Fréron, Granet, the Abbé Destrées, periodical collections of criticism: ''Le Nouvelliste du Parnasse'' 'The Short-Story Writer of Parnassus''">Parnassus.ht ...
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Jean Desfontaines
Jean Desfontaines (c. 1658 – after 1752) was a French Baroque composer. Desfontaines was a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. He was a prolific music teacher in Paris, however, it does not seem that he held a public office. Works His output includes airs, the cantata ''Narcisse'', the pastorale ''Le Désespoir de Tircis'' and sacred music, which consists of 192 works numbered JeD. 1 to JeD. 192. He wrote music on all 150 psalms, a magnificat ''Anima mea'' and 41 ''petits motets'' on liturgical texts of Neo-Latin New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ... poetry. External linksIntroduction to the catalogue of motets by Jean Desfontaines * French male classical composers French Baroque composers 1650s births 18th-century deaths 18th-century classical composer ...
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Henri Desfontaines
Henri Desfontaines (12 November 1876, Paris – 7 January 1931, Paris) was a French film director, actor, and scriptwriter. Filmography As director * 1908 : ''Hamlet'' * 1909 : '' Le Puits et le pendule'' * 1910 : '' Un invité gênant'' * 1910 : '' Shylock, le marchand de Venise'' (''Shylock'') * 1910 : '' Le Scarabée d'or'' * 1910 : '' Résurrection'' * 1910 : '' La Main verte'' * 1910 : '' Hop-Frog'' * 1910 : '' Le Gendre ingénieux'' * 1911 : ''Oliver Cromwell'' * 1911 : '' La Momie'' * 1911 : '' Milton'' * 1911 : '' La Mègère apprivoisée'' * 1911 : '' Jésus de Nazareth'' * 1911 : '' La Femme-cochère'' * 1911 : '' L'Assassinat d'Henri III'' * 1911 : '' Falstaff'' * 1911 : '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' * 1912 : '' Vaincre ou mourir'' * 1912 : '' Le Page'' * 1912 : '' La Chambre au judas'' * 1912 : '' La Reine Élisabeth'' (''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth'') * 1913 : '' Sublime amour'' * 1913 : '' L'Homme nu'' * 1913 : '' La Carabine de la mort'' * 1913 : '' Anne de Boley ...
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Desfontaines-Lavallée
François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733, Caen - 25 November 1825), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright. Before the French Revolution he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He cooperated in the publication of the ''Nouvelle Bibliothèque des romans'' (''New Library of Novels'') and wrote several novels himself, including ''Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de ***'' (1765). He was one of the founders of the '' Dîners du Vaudeville'' and of the '' Dîners du Caveau''. He died in Paris. Works ;Theatre *1765: ''La Bergère des Alpes'', comedy in 1 act and in free vers, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 15 December *1767: ''L'Aveugle de Palmyre'', comédie pastorale in 2 acts in verse mingled with ariettes, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 5 March *1771: ''La Cinquantaine'', pastorale in 3 acts, music by Laborde, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 13 Août *1773: ''Isménor'', heroic drama in 3 acts, music by Rodolphe, Château de Versailles, 17 Nov ...
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