Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun (; 1686 – 16 February 1775) was a French
dramatist
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
and a member of the
Académie française. He was born and died in
Angoulême.
He spent 40 years of his life polishing two plays, but his maid mistook them for wrapping paper, thus losing his life's work. Today, his work ''Les Troyennes'' (1734) survives.
Bibliography
* ''Mahomet second, tragédie'' (1714)
* ''Les Troyennes, tragédie'' (1751)
* ''Philoctète, tragédie'' (1755)
* ''Astyanax, tragédie'' (1756)
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Шатобрэн, Жан-Батист-Вивьен
1686 births
1775 deaths
People from Angoulême
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Members of the Académie Française
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