François Andrieux

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François Andrieux

François Guillaume Jean Stanislas Andrieux (born May 6, 1759 in Strasbourg , † May 10, 1833 in Paris ) was a French scholar, poet and lawyer .

During the period of the Ancien Régime , Andrieux was scribe for the Paris prosecutor, tax officer and began his writing activity. On September 28, 1784 he married Marie Jude.

During the outbreak of the French Revolution , Andrieux was a lawyer in Paris. He joined the movement and became a member of the Jacobins . After the Girondist party was overthrown in 1793, he withdrew from Paris and spent the days of the Terreur with his friend Collin d'Harleville . In 1796 he became a judge at the so-called Tribunal de Cassation . In 1798 he was elected to the Council of Five Hundred and in 1800, after the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire , appointed a member of the tribunate . However, he was not re-elected in 1802, along with a few others, due to his opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte .

Joseph Fouché tried to convince him to participate in the censorship , but Andrieux refused. In 1804 he became the Joseph Bonapartes and Senate Librarian .

Between 1804 and 1816 he held the professorship of fine sciences and grammar at the École polytechnique . During this time he also gave private lessons; one of his students was Mélanie d'Hervilly , to whom he dedicated a poem.

After the so-called Restoration in 1814, he also held a chair at the Collège de France . During this time, Andrieux was involved in the restoration and re-establishment of the Académie française , which was banned during the political turmoil of the revolutionary era . In 1829 Andrieux was entrusted with its management and this office was held until the end of his life. He died four days after his 74th birthday on May 10, 1833 in Paris.

Works

Selection of his publications, which he self-published between 1818 and 1823 in four volumes as “ Œuvres de François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas Andrieux ”:

Plays

  • Anaximandre, ou le Sacrifice aux Grâces, comédie en un acte en vers de dix syllabes , Paris 1782.
  • Les Étourdis, ou le Mort supposé, comédie en 3 actes en vers , Paris 1787.
  • Louis IX en Egypt, opéra en 3 actes , Paris 1790.
  • L'enfance de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, comédie en un acte, mêlée de musique , Paris 1794.
  • Helvétius, ou La Vengeance d'un sage, comédie en un acte et en vers , Paris 1802.
  • Le Trésor, comédie en 5 actes, en vers , Paris 1804.
  • Molière avec ses amis, ou la Soirée d'Auteuil, comédie en 1 acte en vers , Paris 1804.
  • La Suite du Menteur, comédie en cinq actes, en vers de Pierre Corneille , avec des changemens et additions considérables et un prologue , Paris 1808.
  • Le Vieux Fat, ou les Deux Vieillards, comédie en 5 actes, en vers , Paris 1810.
  • Lucius Junius Brutus, tragédie en 5 actes , Paris 1830.
  • Quelques scènes impromptu ou la Matinée du jour de l'an. Prologue pour l'ouverture du Théâtre royal de l'Odéon, sous la direction de M. Picard , Paris 1816.
  • La Comédienne, comédie en 3 actes, en vers , Paris 1816.
  • Le Rêve du mari, ou le Manteau, comédie en 1 acte et en vers , Paris 1826.

various

  • Querelle de Saint-Roch et de Saint-Thomas, sur l'ouverture du manoir céleste à Mademoiselle Chamero , 1795.
  • Contes et opuscules en vers et en prose, suivis de poésies fugitives , 1800.
  • Cours de grammaire et de belles-lettres: sommaire des leçon , 1806.
  • Poésies de François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas Andrieux , 1842.

As part of his literary and poetic work, Andrieux criticized William Shakespeare's works, which he described as artless and exaggerated. His position on the German literature of his time and Romanticism was similar .

Web links

Wikisource: François Andrieux  - Sources and full texts (French)