Antoine-Marin Lemierre
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Antoine-Marin Lemierre (12 January 1733 – 4 July 1793) was a French dramatist and poet.
Life
[edit]Lemierre was born in Paris to a poor family but secured patronage from the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, eventually becoming his secretary. Lemierre achieved his initial theatrical success with Hypermnestre (1758); Titre (1761) and Idomne (1764) failed on account of the subjects. Artaxerce, modelled on Metastasio, and Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784). He was admitted to the Académie française in 1780.[1]
In 1786, Lemierre successfully revived Guillaume Tell to great acclaim. Following the French Revolution, Lemierre expressed profound remorse for having produced a play that promoted revolutionary ideals. It is widely believed that the trauma of witnessing the revolution's excesses contributed to his untimely death. Lemierre published La Peinture (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbé de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos. Les Fastes, ou les usages de lannie (1779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti.[1]
His Œuvres (1810) contain a notice of Lemierre by R. Perrin. and his Œuvres choisies (1811) contain one by F. Fayolle. [1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lemierre, Antoine Marin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 411.
