François-Antoine Jolly (25 December 1662 in

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– 30 July 1753) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist. Jolly became royal censor and initially composed several works for theater including the lyrics of the five-act opera ''

Méléagre ''Méléagre'' (''Meleager'') is an opera by the French-Italian composer Jean-Baptiste Stuck, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 24 May 1709. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and ...

'' by Battistin given on 24 May 1709 ; ''l’École des Amants'', comedy in three acts and in verse, successfully performed in 1718 and printed in 1719 ; ''la Capricieuse'', comédy in three acts and in verse, presented at the Théâtre-Italien in 1726, published in 1727 ; and ''la Femme jalouse'', comedy in three acts and in verse, given at the same theatre in 1726, printed in 1727. He gave accurate editions of ''Œuvres'' by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...

1734 Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America. * February 16 – ...

, 6 vol. in-4°, and

1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3 – A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomou ...

, 8 vol. in-12, enhanced with vignettes for each play ; ''Œuvres'' by Racine, 1 vol. in-12 ; ''Œuvres'' by P. Corneille, 5 vol. in-12 ; ''Théâtre'' by Montfleury father and son, 3 vol. in 12. Finally, he wrote ''Nouveau et grand Cérémonial de France'', a work which earned a pension of 400 pounds to the sisters of the author.

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Ferdinand Hoefer Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, Döschnitz – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science. Selected works *''Éléme ...

, ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', t. 26, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1858,(p. 584).

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