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Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson De Pezay
Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de Pezay, (27 April 1741 – 6 December 1777) was an 18th-century French soldier, courtier and man of letters. Works *1768: ''Zélis au bain'', Paris, 1763, 1766, in-8. This poem, in four books, was written with enough natural but in a too free tone; the author, who worked ceaselessly his works, reworked it, changed the outcome and added two songs (''la Nouvelle Zélis au bain'', Geneva, in-8). *1764: ''Le Pot-pourri, épître à qui on voudra'', Paris, Sébastien Jorry. *1764: ''Lettre d'Alcibiade à Glicère'', Paris, Sébastien Jorry, in-12. *1767: ''Lettre d'Ovide à Julie'', in-8. *1767: ''Suite des Bagatelles anonymes (by Claude Joseph Dorat, Dorat)'', Paris, in-8. *1770: ''La Closière ou le Vin nouveau'', opéra comique, Paris, in-8. *1771: ''Éloge de Fénelon'', Paris, in-8. *1771: ''Les Soirées helvétiennes, alsaciennes et franc-comtoises'', Paris, in-8; London, 1772, 2 vol. in-12. *1771: ''Les Tableaux'', followed by ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Joseph Dorat
Claude Joseph Dorat (31 December 1734 – 29 April 1780) was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat. He was born in Paris, to a family consisting of generations of lawyers, and he joined the corps of the king's musketeers. He became fashionable for his work, ''Réponse d'Abélard à Héloise'' ("Abelard's Answer to Heloise"), and followed up this first success with a number of heroic epistles, ''Les Victimes de l'amour, ou lettres de quelques amants célébres'' (1776) ("Victims of Love, or Letters from some famous lovers"). Besides light verse he wrote comedies, fables and, among other novels, ''Les Sacrifices de lamour, ou lettres de la vicomtesse de Senanges et du chevalier de Versenay'' (1771). He tried to cover his failures as a dramatist by buying up large numbers of seats for performances, and his books were lavishly illustrated by good artists and expensively produced, in order to secure their success. Nevertheless, he managed to attract hatred both of the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |