Charles-François Panard

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Charles-François Panard

Charles-François Panard (born November 2, 1689 in Courville-sur-Eure , † June 13, 1765 in Paris ) was a French songwriter and playwright .

Life

Charles-François Panard showed a great talent for poetry from an early age. Jean-François Marmontel calls it le père de la chanson morale et La Fontaine du Vaudeville . He had an excellent talent for the latter, very popular genre of French theater plays. For the stage, he wrote 13 comic operas and five comedies that were successful and practiced as a cheerful and benevolent satire moral criticism. In addition, he showed himself as a lyric poet from a not disadvantageous side in fables , anacreontic odes , epithets, madrigals , allegories and cantatas . He lived on the support of his friends and distinguished patrons, whom he paid with verse, was a member of the Société du Caveau and is said to have composed most of his songs in a state of intoxication.

To be sure, there are some offenses against language and poetry in his poems; but one is held harmless for it by the ease of versification, by a deep feeling and a healthy philosophy . These advantages are united in one of his poems, in which he describes what, in his opinion, the comforts of life are based on. His works were collected under the title Théâtre et œuvres diverses (4 vols., Paris 1764), a selection was published by A. Goufflé as Œuvres choisies (3 vols., 1803).

In character, Panard was a disinterested, righteous, meek and undemanding man. His shyness and the discretion with which he carefully weighed each word in conversation as in his writings were reminiscent of similar traits in La Fontaine's character.

Selected Works

Panard's glass , cult relic of the Société du Caveau
  • Le Tour de Carnaval , one-act comedy in prose, 1731
  • Les Acteurs déplacés , 1737, one-act comedy in prose. 1737
  • Les Fêtes sincères et l'heureux retour , one-act comedy in free verse, 1744
  • Pygmalion , one-act comic opera, 1744
  • Roland , one-act comic opera, 1744
  • Le Magasin's modern , one-act comic opera, 1746
  • L'Impromotu des acteurs , one-act comedy in free verse, 1747
  • Les Tableaux , one-act comedy in free verse, 1747
  • Zéphir et Fleurette , one-act comic opera, with Pierre Laujon and Charles-Simon Favart , 1754 (parody of Zélindor by François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif )
  • Le Nouvelliste dupé , one-act comic opera, 1757
  • L'Écosseuse , one-act comic opera, with Louis Anseaume , 1762 (parody of L'Écossaise by Voltaire )

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ So Charles-François Panard on data.bnf.fr, database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ; According to the article Panard, Charles-François , in: Gero von Wilpert (Ed.) Lexicon of World Literature , 3rd Edition, p. 1148 and other sources, Panard was born in 1694.
  2. ↑ a b c Heinrich Döring: Panard (Charles François) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 10th part, p. 275.
  3. ^ Panard, Charles-François , in: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, 1902-08, 15th vol., P. 354.
personal data
SURNAME Panard, Charles-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French song poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1689 or 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Courville-sur-Eure
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1765
Place of death Paris