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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE, See also:

JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1755–1806), See also:French dramatist, was See also:born at Mevoisins, near See also:Maintenon (See also:Eure-et-See also:Loire), on the 3oth of May 1755. His first dramatic success was L'Inconstant, a See also:comedy accepted by the Comedie Francaise in 1780, but not produced there until six years later, though it was played elsewhere in 1784. This was followed by L'Optimiste, ou l'homme toujours content (1788), and Chateaux en Espagne (1789). His best See also:play, Le Vieux Celibataire, appeared in 1793. Among his other plays are—the one-See also:act comedy See also:Monsieur de Crac clans son See also:petit cartel (1791), See also:Les Artistes (1796), Les Mceurs du jour (1800) and Malice pour malice (1803). Collin was one of the See also:original members of the See also:Institute of See also:France, and died in See also:Paris on the 24th of See also:February ,8o6. The 1822 edition of his See also:Theatre et See also:poe'sies fugitives contains a See also:notice by his friend the dramatist See also:Andrieux. His Theatre was also edited by L. Moland in 1876; and by Edouard See also:Thierry in 1882.

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