Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy or Dormont De Belloy (born November 17, 1727 in Saint-Flour (Cantal) , † March 5, 1775 in Paris ) was a French playwright and actor .
Buirette de Belloy trained as a lawyer, but gave up the legal profession to become an actor. As a member of a theater troupe, he performed with some success at the northern European courts and especially in Saint Petersburg . During this time he also began to write tragedies, which were characterized by strong theatrical effects and which were very well received by the public after his return to France. His preoccupation with topics from French history (as one of the first French playwrights at all) earned him the reputation of a "national poet".
His best-known drama was Le siège de Calais ( The Siege of Calais , 1765), which heroized the defenders of this northern French city during the Hundred Years War . Calais made him his honorary citizen. Due to its popularity, Buirette de Belloy was accepted into the Académie française in 1772 , where he took over the 34th seat from Louis de Bourbon Condé . This choice met with some criticism, notably from representatives of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire , Denis Diderot or Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert . Other works such as Gaston di Bayard (1771), Pedro le cruel (1772) and Gabrielle de Vergy (1777, posthumous) could no longer achieve the same success as Le siège de Calais . The complete works were published in Paris in 1779, four years after his death, as a six-volume edition.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- "César database" on person and work (fr.)
- Information on Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
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| SURNAME | Buirette de Belloy, Pierre-Laurent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buirette de Belloy, Dormont |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French playwright and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Flour (Cantal) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1775 |
| Place of death | Paris |