Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin, (1747 in Paris – 13 January 1815 in

Saint-Lô Saint-Lô (, ; br, Sant Lo) is a commune in northwest France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy.French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

, Vieillard de Boismartin was a lawyer at parlement de Rouen. He later held several political and judicial positions, including three times mayor of Saint-Lô. The father of poet and critic

Pierre-Ange Vieillard Pierre-Ange Vieillard de Boismartin (17 June 1778 – 12 January 1862) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright and literary critic. Biography Vieillard was the son of Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin, a lawyer at the Parlement of Rouen, then ...

, Vieillard de Boismartin was a member of the

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Publications

;Theatre * ''Almanzor'', tragedy in five acts and in verse, with Decroix, Rouen, Behourt, 1771, in-8°. * ''Blanchard, ou le Siège de Rouen'', tragedy in five acts and in verse, Rouen, 1777, in-8°, presented on stage, with large changes, at the end of 1792, and preinted again, Saint-Lô, P.-F. Gomont, 1793, in-8°. * ''Théramène, ou Athènes sauvée'', tragedy in five acts and in verse, Saint-Lô, P.F. Gomont, an v, in-8°. ;Law * ''Lettre écrite par un avocat, soldat citoyen, à ses enfants, au sujet de la révolution'', Paris, Cailleau, 1789, in-8°. * ''Mémoire justificatif pour Jacques Verdure père, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine, Jacques Sénateur et Pierre Verdure, ses enfants, tous accusés de parricide et prisonniers ès prison de la conciergerie du Palais'', Rouen, Pierre Seyer, 1787, in-8° de 144 p.

Sources

Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the fi ...

, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français, plus particulièrement pendant les XVIIIe XIXe'', t.10, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1839, p. 149.

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''Almanzor''
on Gallica {{DEFAULTSORT:Vieillard de Boismartin, Antoine 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Writers from Paris 1747 births 1815 deaths