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Élisabeth Guibert
Élisabeth Guibert (31 March 1725, Versailles - 1788) was an 18th-century French woman writer. Elisabeth Guibert is the author of several plays dealing with conventional subjects or inspired by classical themes. In addition to her theatre, she also published many poems extolling the virtues of a simple life and lamenting the infidelity in the ''Almanach des Muses'' 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769. Élisabeth Guibert benefited a pension from Louis XV. In he''Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et bibliographique des Françaises et des étrangères naturalisées en France'' Fortunée Briquet wrote that her works were "remarkuable for their ease and wit." Works *1768: ''Le Sommeil d’Amynthe'', Paris, Veuve Duchesne *1768: ''Les Filles à marier, one-act comedy in verse'', Paris, Veuve Duchesne *1775: ''Les Philéniens ou le patriotisme'', Paris, Lesclapart *1770: ''Pensées détachées'', s.l. Brussels">Bruxelles] *1764: ''Poésies et œuvres diverses'', s.l. [Paris], (this work incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almanach Des Muses
''L'Almanach des Muses'' was a French-language poetry magazine published in Paris, France. History and profile ''Almanach des Muses'' was founded in 1765 by Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy, Sautreau de Marsy. The magazine was much in vogue during the second half of the 18th century. The aim of the ''Almanach des Muses'' was to go beyond what previous almanacs had attempted by presenting to its readership a selection of recent poetry, with critical notes and information about the literary scene. Appearing annually, the ''Almanach des Muses'' published a number of lesser-known writers such as Évariste de Forges de Parny, Parny, Pierre Légier, Antoine Bertin, Bertin, Jean-Antoine Roucher, Roucher, Charles-Pierre Colardeau, Colardeau or Arnaud Berquin, Berquin, Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, Legouvé, Bernard de Bonnard, Bonnard, Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Arnault, well-known writers such as Stanislas de Boufflers, Boufflers, Jacques Delille, Delille, Claude Joseph Dorat, Dorat, Louis-Marceli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XV Of France
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Régence, Regent of France. André-Hercule de Fleury, Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom. His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Great Britain and Spain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortunée Briquet
Marguerite-UrsuIe-Fortunée Briquet (16 June 1782 – 14 May 1815) was an early 19th-century French femme de lettres and Polygraph (author), polygraph., ''Histoires d'historiennes'', Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006, p.11. Biography Fortunée Bernier received a very good education and was one of the most outstanding students of Hilaire-Alexandre Briquet, who later became her husband, and who inserted her early writings in the ''Almanach des Muses''. In 1800, an ''Ode sur les vertus civiles'' opened her the doors of the Society of Literature and of the salons of Paris. Fanny de Beauharnais, the Napoléon, First consul aunt, gave the signal for applause by sending these verses, with her poem ''l’Ile de la Félicité'': Later were published ''Odes sur la mort de Dolomieu'', an ode to Denis Lebrun, ''la Vertu est la base des républiques'', and her ''Mémoire sur Klopstock, sa vie et ses ouvrages'', which earned her entrance in the "Athénée des arts" of Paris. However, For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epistle
An epistle (; ) is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter. The epistle genre of letter-writing was common in ancient Egypt as part of the scribal-school writing curriculum. The letters in the New Testament from Apostles to Christians are usually referred to as epistles. Those traditionally attributed to Paul are known as Pauline epistles and the others as catholic (i.e., "general") epistles. Ancient Egyptian epistles The ancient Egyptians wrote epistles, most often for pedagogical reasons. Egyptologist Edward Wente (1990) speculates that the Fifth-dynasty Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi—in his many letters sent to his viziers—was a pioneer in the epistolary genre. Its existence is firmly attested during the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, and is prominently featured in the educational guide ''The Book of Kemit'' written during the Eleventh Dynasty. A standardized formulae for epistolary compositions exi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vers De Société
Vers may refer to: Places in France * Vers, Haute-Savoie, a commune in the Haute-Savoie ''département'' * Vers, Lot, a commune in the Lot ''département'' * Vers, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire ''département'' * Vers-en-Montagne, a commune in the Jura ''département'' * Vers-Pont-du-Gard, a commune in the Gard ''département'' * Vers-sous-Sellières, a commune in the Jura ''département'' * Vers-sur-Méouge, a commune in the Drôme ''département'' * Vers-sur-Selles, a commune in the Somme ''département'' Rivers *Vers (Lahn), a river of Hesse, Germany *Vers (Lot), a river of southern France, tributary of the Lot (river), Lot Other uses *Vers, an abbreviation for the trigonometric function versine *Vers, an abbreviation for versatile (sex), versatile, commonly used in Western gay male culture *VERS, an acronym for Victorian Electronic Records Strategy, a system for records management *Vers, an alias for Carol Danvers in the 2019 super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas-Toussaint Des Essarts
Nicolas-Toussaint Lemoyne des Essarts or Desessarts, (1 November 1744 – Coutances, 5 October 1810 aged 65) was a French bibliographer. Publications First a lawyer then a bookseller, he was the author or editor of voluminous compilations of which the best known are: * ''Causes célèbres'', 1773–1789, 196 volumes in-12 ; * ''Dictionnaire universel de police contenant l’origine et les progrès de cette partie importante de l’administration civile en France...'', Paris : chez Moutard, 1786–1790, 8 vol. in-4°, LXVII-5116 p. (articles ‘abandon’ à ‘police’) * ''Bibliothèque de l'homme de goût'', 1798, 3 volumes in-8 (rewritten in 1808, with Antoine Alexandre Barbier Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 – 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer. He was born in Coulommiers ( Seine-et-Marne). He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801 ...) ; * ''Les Siècles littéraires de la France, ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 *''Éléments de chimie générale'' (1841) *''Histoire de la chimie''Volume 1 (1842–43) * Dictionnaire de chimie et de physique ' (1846) *''Dictionnaire de médecine pratique'' (1847) * Afrique australe ... Afrique orientale ... Afrique centrale ... Empire de Maroc ' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Marie Quérard
Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ... from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the first volumes of his great work, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c.'' (14 vols., 1826–1842). This bibliography dealt with the 18th and early 19th centuries, and he was enabled to complete it by a government subsidy granted by Guizot in 1830, and using the assistance of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky. His final volume of contemporary French literature, with which he hoped to complete his work, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in Society, human society and the Natural environment, environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, History of slavery, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russian Empire, Russia and Qing dynasty, China. Western world, Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Women Dramatists And Playwrights
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Versailles
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stories, monographs, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
