Pierre-Édouard Lémontey
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (born January 14, 1762 in Lyon , † June 26, 1826 in Paris ) was a French scholar, writer, librettist and historian.
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey studied law and, when the Estates General were convened in 1789, contributed significantly to restoring civil rights to Protestants.
During the reign of terror he stayed in Switzerland and did not return to France until 1795 after the fall of the Mountain Party . He later became head of theater censorship, and was accepted into the Académie française in 1819 .
Among his operas, Palma, ou le Voyage en Grèce, made great fortunes during the Revolution; from his other writings are to be emphasized in the star written novel spirit Irons-nous à Paris? ou la famille du Jura (1804) and the Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de Louis XIV (1818), a forerunner of his excellent Histoire de la Régence et de la minorité de Louis XV jusqu'au ministère du cardinal de Fleury (1832, 2 Vol.), Which was only allowed to be printed after the July Revolution . A collection of his “oeuvres” was published in Paris in 1829 in five volumes.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre-Édouard Lémontey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lémontey, Pierre-Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1826 |
| Place of death | Paris |