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
- Literature by and about Antoine-Vincent Arnault in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data from Antoine-Vincent Arnault in "Grundrisz for the history of German poetry from the sources, by Karl Goedeke, 1859, page 1313
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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 |