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CHARLEMAGNE, JEAN ARMAND (1753–1838)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLEMAGNE, See also:JEAN ARMAND (1753–1838) , See also:French dramatic author, was See also:born at See also:Bourget (See also:Seine) on the 3oth of See also:November 1753. Originally intended for the See also:church, he turned first to being a lawyer's clerk and then a soldier. He served in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence, and on returning to See also:France (1783) began to employ his See also:pen on economic subjects, and later in See also:writing for the See also:stage. He became the author of a large number of plays, poems and romances, among which may be mentioned the comedies M. de Crac a See also:Paris (1793), Le Souper See also:des See also:Jacobins (1795) and L' Agioteur(1796) , and Observations de quelques patriotes sur la necessite de conserver See also:les monuments de la litterature et des arts (1794), an See also:essay written in collaboration with M.M. See also:Chardin and Renouard, which induced the See also:Convention to protect books adorned with the coats of arms of their former owners and other treasures from destruction at the hands of the revolutionists. He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:March 1838.

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