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ARNAULT, ANTOINE VINCENT (1766-1834)

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ARNAULT, See also:ANTOINE See also:VINCENT (1766-1834) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Paris in See also:January 1766. His first See also:play, See also:Marius Minturnes (1791), immediately established his reputation. A See also:year later he followed up his first success with a second republican tragedy, Lucrece. He See also:left See also:France during the Terror and on his return was arrested by the revolutionary authorities, but was liberated through the intervention of See also:Fabre d'See also:Eglantine and See also:ethers. He was commissioned by See also:Bonaparte in 1797 with the reorganization of the Ionian Islands, and was nominated to the See also:Institute and made secretary See also:general of the university. He was faithful to his See also:patron through his misfortunes, and after the See also:Hundred Days remained in See also:exile until 1819. In 1829 he was627 re-elected to the See also:Academy and became perpetual secretary in 1833. Othiers of his plays are See also:Blanche et Montcassin, ou See also:les. Venitiens (1798); and Germanicus (1816), the performance of which was the occasion of a disturbance in the See also:parterre which threatened serious See also:political complications,. His tragedies are perhaps less known now than his Fables (1813, 1815 and 1826), which are written in very graceful See also:verse. Arnault collaborated in a See also:Vie politique et militaire de See also:Napoleon (1822), and wrote some very interesting Souvenirs d'un sexagenaire' (1833), which contain much out-of-the-way See also:information about the See also:history of the years previous to 1804. Arnault died at Goderville on the, 16th of See also:September 1834.

His eldest son, Emilien Lucien (1787-1863), wrote several tragedies, the leading roles in which were interpreted by See also:

Talma. See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. 7. Arnault's (Euvres completes (4 vols.) were published at the See also:Hague and Paris in 1818-1819, and again (8 vols.) at Paris in 1824.

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