Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy

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Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy

Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (born October 19, 1764 in Versailles , † September 4, 1846 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French soldier , politician , writer and librettist .

De Jouy first took up the military career, then traveled in South America and later fought in the East Indies under the Tippu Sahib .

Returned to the country, he made the first revolution wars with, fled, accused of treason and it condemned to death in 1794 in Switzerland, returned after the fall of de Maximilien Robespierre returned to France, was in 1797 the military state and devoted himself to literature.

First an avid supporter of the Restoration, he soon converted to the liberal party, was Mayor of Paris during the July Revolution , then librarian of the Louvre.

Since 1815 he was a member of the Académie française . His opera texts are well known:

His tragedy Sylla (1824) was very successful, less so did his other comedies, vaudevilles , tragedies, etc., some of which were not performed.

Of his prosaic writings, the most famous is L'hermite de la Chaussée d'Antin etc. (Paris 1812–1814, 5 vols.), A description of French customs from the early 19th century, while the others, entitled L ' hermite etc. published moral descriptions suffer from many inaccuracies and poor styles.

He published his oeuvres complètes himself (Paris 1823–1828, 27 vols.). He has also worked on many magazines and on the biography nouvelle des contemporains .

literature

  • Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d'Etienne de Jouy by Michel Faul (Editions Seguier, France, March 2009, ISBN 978-2-84049-556-7 )

swell

  1. ↑ According to the birth certificate, Jouy was not born in Jouy-en-Josas in 1769 , but as stated above, source: French Wikipedia

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personal data
SURNAME Jouy, Victor-Joseph Étienne de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1846
Place of death Saint-Germain-en-Laye