Antoine-Vincent Arnault

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Antoine-Vincent Arnault

Antoine-Vincent Arnault (born January 1, 1766 in Paris , † December 16, 1834 in Goderville near Le Havre ) was a French playwright and poet .

Life

Arnault, born in Paris in 1766, left France when the French Revolution broke out and was imprisoned for a short time after his return from England. He took part in Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and was appointed a member of the Institut de France in September 1799 . He took part in the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII and received posts in the Ministry of Interior and Culture.

In 1804 he became a member of the Legion of Honor and the following year Vice President of the Institut de France. In 1809 he was appointed Chevalier de l'Empire . After the rule of the Hundred Days , Arnault was exiled and expelled from the Institut de France in 1816. At the instigation of the Duke of Richelieu , he returned to France in 1819.

In 1829 he was again a member of the Académie française as the successor to Louis-Benoît Picard . As their secrétaire perpétuel he replaced François Andrieux from 1833 .

Arnault was best known as a playwright. Between 1820 and 1825 he was an author of the twenty-volume encyclopedia Nouvelle biographie des contemporains . In 1822 the three-volume biography Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon 1er appeared . His memoirs appeared in four volumes in 1833 under the title Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire . Arnault also wrote political and philosophical writings.

Works

  • Marius à Minturne , 1791
  • Lucrèce , 1792
  • Horatius Coclès , 1793
  • Quintus Cincinnatus , 1793
  • Oscar fils d'Ossian , 1796
  • Mélidor et Phrosine , 1798
  • Les Vénitiens , 1799
  • Blanche et Moncassin , 1799
  • De l'administration des établissements d'instruction publique , 1801
  • Le Roi et le Laboreur , 1802
  • Scipion consul , 1804
  • Fables , 1813
  • La rançon de Duguesclin , 1814
  • Germanicus , 1816
  • Nouvelle biography des contemporains , 20 volumes, 1820–25
  • Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon 1er , 3 volumes 1823
  • Les loisirs d'un banni , 2 volumes, 1823
  • Fables et poésies , 1826
  • Guillaume de Nassau , 1826
  • Les gens à deux visages , 1826
  • Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire , 4 volumes, 1833

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from Antoine-Vincent Arnault in "Grundrisz for the history of German poetry from the sources, by Karl Goedeke, 1859, page 1313
personal data
SURNAME Arnault, Antoine-Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1834
Place of death Goderville