Fabre d'Églantine
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Fabre d'Églantine , real name Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre (born July 29, 1750 in Carcassonne , † April 5, 1794 in Paris ), was a French poet, actor, dramaturge and revolutionary.
Life
Son of a lawyer in Toulouse , he joined a traveling group of actors around 1770.
His works include Philinte, ou la suite du Misanthrope (1790, a sequel to Molière's play Der misanthrope ) and the children's song Il pleut, il pleut, bergère (“It's raining, it's raining, shepherdess”), popular in France . He also edited parts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Roman Émile for the theater.
During the French Revolution he was one of the supporters of Georges Dantons and Jean-Paul Marat and was a member of the Club des Cordeliers . He voted in the National Convention for the execution of the king and in September 1792 wrote an appeal that contributed to the September murders in Paris prisons. Fabre was a member of the committee for the creation of the French revolutionary calendar , the idea of which came from Charles-Gilbert Romme , and invented most of the day and month names of the calendar. As followers of Danton, he was with this on 5 April 1794 the guillotine executed .
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| SURNAME | Églantine, Fabre d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fabre, Philippe-François-Nazaire (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet, actor, dramaturge and revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcassonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1794 |
| Place of death | Paris |