''Adherbal roy de Numidie'' is a tragedy by French dramatist
François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel
François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel (January 1, 1677 – December 26, 1758) was a French playwright and satirist.
Biography
He was an extremely precocious boy, and at Bordeaux, where he was educated, he produced a play when he was nine years old ...
(1677–1758) who gave the first presentation of this work on 8 January 1694 when he was 16. It is based on the life of
Adherbal, King of Numidia from 118 to 112 BC. It was translated into Dutch by Rudolph Marcus in 1759 under the title ''Jugurtha''.
See also
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17th-century French literature
17th-century French literature was written throughout the ''Grand Siècle'' of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the F ...
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Theatre of France
This article is an overview of the theatre of France.
Historic overview
Secular French theatre
Discussions about the origins of non-religious theatre ("théâtre profane") -- both drama and farce—in the Middle Ages remain controversial, but th ...
External links
''Adherbal roy de Numidie''on
data.bnf.fr
Adherbal roy de Numidie
1694 plays
French plays
Plays set in the 2nd century BC
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