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ANDRIEUX, See also:FRANCOIS See also:GUILLAUME See also:JEAN STANISLAS (1759–1833) , See also:French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 6th of May 1759. He was educated at Strassburg and proceeded to See also:Paris to study See also:law. There he became a See also:close friend of See also:Collin d'Harleville. He became secretary to the See also:duke of See also:Uzes, and practised at the See also:bar, but his See also:attention was divided between his profession and literature. His plays are of the 18th See also:century See also:style, comedies of intrigue, but they See also:rank with those of Collin d'Harleville among the best of the See also:period next to those of See also:Beaumarchais. See also:Les Etourdis, his best See also:comedy, was represented in 1788 and won for the author the praise of La Harpe. Andrieux hailed the beginning of the Revolution with delight and received a See also:place under the new See also:government, but at the beginning of the Terror he retreated to Mevoisins, the patrimony of his friend Collin d'Harleville. Under the See also:Convention he was made See also:civil See also:judge in the See also:Court of Cassation, and was one of the See also:original members of the See also:Institute. A moderate statesman, he was elected secretary and finally See also:president of the Tribunat, but with other of his colleagues he was expelled for his irreconcilable attitude towards the See also:establishment of the civil See also:code. On his retirement he again turned to write for the See also:stage, producing Le Tresor and See also:Moliere avec ses antis in 1804. He became librarian to See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte and to the See also:Senate, was See also:professor of See also:grammar and literature at the Ecole Polytechnique and eventually at the See also:College de See also:France. As a professor he was extraordinarily successful, and his lectures, which have unhappily not been preserved, attracted mature men as well as the See also:ordinary students.

He was rigidly classical in his tastes, and an ardent opponent of romanticism, which tended in his See also:

opinion to the subversion of morals. Among his other plays are La Comedienne (1816), one of his best comedies, and a tragedy, See also:Lucius See also:Junius See also:Brutus (1830). Andrieux was the author of some excellent stories and fables: La See also:Promenade de See also:Fenelon, Le Bulle d' See also:Alexandre VI. and the See also:Meunier de See also:Saint-Souci. In 1829 he became perpetual secretary to the See also:Academy, and in fulfilment of his functions he worked hard at the completion of the See also:Dictionary. He died on the 9th of May 1833 in Paris. See also A. H. See also:Taillandier, See also:Notice sur la See also:vie et les ouvrages d'Andrieux (1850) ; Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littiraires, vol. i.

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