Borel (18th-century,
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
– ? ) was an 18th-century French playwright from Normandy.
Already made known by some poetic essays and an
epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...
in Latin entitled ''Nicetas'', crowned by the
Académie des Palinods in 1749, Borel Borel addressed the dramatic genre with a play, ''le Méfiant'' ("The distrustful"), comedy in five acts and in verse, premiered in Paris at the
Comédie Italienne, 20 December 1785, where it was well received.
Despite this happy first attempt in literary career, the silence of the biographies on Borel from that time suggests he stopped there.
Works
*1786: ''Le Méfiant, comédie en 5 actes et en vers'', Paris, Cailleau.
Sources
*
Théodore-Éloi Lebreton''Biographie rouennaise'' Rouen, Le Brument, 1865, (p. 46-7).
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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Rouen
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown