Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (14 January 1762,

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– 26 June 1826,

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) was a French lawyer, politician, scholar and historian.

Life

On the convocation of the États généraux, he was noted for many political writings. Deputy for the

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at the Legislative Assembly, he was elected its president several times. He took part in the defence of Lyon against the troops of the

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and in 1793 escaped death by fleeing to Switzerland. Lémontey returned in 1795 and was in 1804 made head of the theatrical censorship commission, entering the Académie française in 1819. He was twice a laureate of the

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for his ''Éloges'' praising Peiresc (1785) and those praising

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(1788). He edited royalist newspapers and was one of the companions at the "Déjeuner de la Fourchette".

Main works

* ''Palma, ou le Voyage en Grèce, opéra en deux actes'', Paris, Théâtre de la rue Feydeau, 5 fructidor an 6 (1798) * ''Raison, folie, chacun son mot, petit cours de morale mis à la portée des vieux enfans'' (1801) * ''Irons-nous à Paris ? ou la famille du Jura'' (novel written on the occasion of Napoleon I of France's coronation) (1804) * ''La Vie du soldat français, en 3 dialogues composés par un conscrit du département de l'Ardèche'' (1805) * ''

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, ou la Naissance d'un comte de Champagne, poème en 4 chants, sans préface et sans notes, traduit de la langue romance, sur l'original composé en 1250, par

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ne, clerc du diocèse de Rheims'' (1811) * ''Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de

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, et sur les altérations qu'il éprouva pendant la vie de ce Prince'' (1818) - both praised and controversial on its publication, it was a forerunner of ''L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution'' by

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and underlined the continuity between the institutions of the

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and those of the

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. He interpreted this continuity as a result of

's absolutism. * ''De la Peste de Marseille et de la Provence pendant les années 1720 et 1721'' (1821) * ''Œuvres, édition revue et préparée par l'auteur'' (13 vol.) (1829) * ''Histoire de la

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et de la minorité de

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jusqu'au ministère du

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'' (1832)

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Académie française
1762 births 1826 deaths Lawyers from Lyon French opera librettists 19th-century French historians People of the Bourbon Restoration People of the First French Empire Members of the Legislative Assembly (France) French counter-revolutionaries Newspaper editors of the French Revolution French male essayists French male dramatists and playwrights 18th-century essayists Writers from Lyon {{France-journalist-stub