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Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges
Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Choudard, known under the pen name of Desforges, (15 September 1746 – 13 August 1806) was a French actor, dramatist, librettist and man of letters. Biography Choudard was born in Paris, the natural son of Dr. Antoine Petit. He was educated at the Collège Mazarin and the Collège de Beauvais and, in accordance with his father's wishes, began the study of medicine. He then turned to painting and did casual work. Dr. Petit's death left him dependent on his own resources, and after appearing on the stage of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris he joined a troupe of wandering actors, whom he served in the capacity of playwright. He was known under the pen name of Desforges, which also was the name he had on the stage. He married an actress; the two were welcomed in Saint Petersburg, where they spent three years (1779 to 1782). After his return to Paris he dedicated himself completely to literature. Desforges was one of the first to avail himself of the new facil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1790 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790. Events *February – Xavier de Maistre begins writing '' Voyage autour de ma chambre'' (Voyage Around my Room, published 1794) while under arrest in Turin in the Kingdom of Sardinia, as the result of a duel. *May – Following the death of Thomas Warton, William Hayley refuses an offer to succeed him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Retired MP Henry James Pye is appointed in his place. *May 31 – United States President George Washington approves the Copyright Act of 1790. *June 1 – The Royal Literary Fund is founded in Britain by David Williams. *June 9 – John Barrie's ''Philadelphia Spelling Book Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New'' becomes the first American book copyrighted. *''unknown date'' – William Lane establishes the Minerva Press in London, specializing in Gothic fiction. New books Fiction * Mary Pilkington – ''Delia'' *Ann Radcliffe – ''A Sicilian Romance'' *Helen M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's ''Pensées'' under the supervision of Victor Cousin. He taught philosophy at Tours until the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852, when his republican principles cost him his position. Vapereau returned to Paris to study law, and in 1854 joined the French bar. He did not engage in any legal practice and returned to writing shortly afterwards. In 1858, he published the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and from 1859 to 1869 he edited the ''L'Année littéraire et dramatique''. After the collapse of the Empire, Vapereau was appointed prefect of Cantal on 14 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1798. Events *February – Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes the conversation poem " Frost at Midnight", commonly seen as the best of the series. *April – Coleridge writes the conversation poems " Fears in Solitude" ("Written ... During the Alarm of an Invasion", soon published in a pamphlet) and " The Nightingale". *April 16 – Coleridge's " The Recantation: An Ode" appears in ''The Morning Post'', describing his disillusionment with the French Revolution. *April 30 – Richard Cumberland's comedy '' The Eccentric Lover'' is first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in London. *September 18 – '' Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems'' by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is first published anonymously in Bristol by Joseph Cottle (who also remains anonymous), marking the beginning of English literary Romanticism. Most of the poems are by Wordsworth, including '' Lines composed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1819. Events * January 30 – Romney Literary Society is established as the Polemic Society of Romney, West Virginia. *April – John Keats begins his "Great Year" or "Living Year", during which he is at his most productive, having given up work at Guy's Hospital and moved into a new house, Wentworth Place, on Hampstead Heath on the edge of London. On April 3, Charles Wentworth Dilke lets his house, next door to Keats, to Mrs Brawne, whose daughter Fanny would become the love of Keats's life. Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' and most of his major odes: ''Ode to Psyche'', ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'', ''Ode to a Nightingale'', ''Ode on Indolence'' and ''Ode on Melancholy''. In the summer he writes ''Lamia''; on September 19 he writes his ode ''To Autumn'' at Winchester; and on October 19 proposes marriage to Fanny. *April 1 – In London ''The New Monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duodecimo
Paper size standards govern the size of sheets of paper used as writing paper, stationery, cards, and for some printed documents. The ISO 216 standard, which includes the commonly used A4 size, is the international standard for paper size. It is used across the world except in North America and parts of Central and South America, where North American paper sizes such as " Letter" and "Legal" are used. The international standard for envelopes is the C series of ISO 269. International paper sizes The international paper size standard is ISO 216. It is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. ISO paper sizes are all based on a single aspect ratio of the square root of 2, or approximately 1:1.41421. There are different series, as well as several extensions. The following international paper sizes are included in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): ''A3'', ''A4'', ''A5'', ''B4'', ''B5''. A series There are 11 sizes in the A series, designated A0–A10, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1800 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1800. Events *January – Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, ''Castle Rackrent'' ("an Hibernian Tale: Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782"), is published anonymously in London, variously regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel, the first saga novel and the first with an unreliable narrator. * January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press will grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". In ''A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910''. Sahitya Akademi, 2006. Retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1794 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1794. Events *March 12 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Henry Holland, opens to the public. *May 12 – William Godwin's novel ''Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams'' is published in London as an attack on tyrannical government, although its controversial original preface and ending are suppressed. The work also contains elements of detective fiction. *May 14 – Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter by American speculator Gilbert Imlay, Fanny, is born in Le Havre. *June – English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey first meet, in Oxford while Coleridge is ''en route'' for a tour of Wales. They meet again in Bristol in August (where they also meet local poet Robert Lovell and his sisters-in-law, who they will marry; he also introduces them to the publisher Joseph Cottle). After Robespierre's execution in July, they collaborate on the "hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages. After a long period of royal suspicion, he was admitted to the French Academy and his reputation in France has never faded since. Evidence of this is found in the many pictures and statues of the writer, later depictions on medals, coins and postage stamps. Life Early years La Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry in France. His father was Charles de La Fontaine, maître des eaux et forêts – a kind of deputy-ranger – of the Duchy of Château-Thierry; his mother was Françoise Pidoux. Both sides of his family were of the highest provincial middle class; though they were not noble, his father was fairly wealthy. Jean, the eldest child, was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
