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DESFORGES, See also:PIERRE See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE CHOUDARD (1746-(18o6) , See also:French dramatist and See also:man of letters, natural son of Dr See also:Antoine See also:Petit, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:September 1746. He was educated at the See also:College See also:Mazarin and the College de See also:Beauvais, and at his See also:father's See also:desire began the study of See also:medicine. Dr Petit's See also:death See also:left him dependent on his own resources, and after appearing on the See also:stage of the Comedie Italienne in Paris he joined a troupe of wandering actors, whom he served in the capacity of playwright. He married an actress, and the two spent three years in St See also:Petersburg, where they were well received. In 1782 he produced at the Comedie Italienne an See also:adaptation of See also:Fielding's novel with the See also:title Tom See also:Jones a Londres. His first See also:great success was achieved with L'Epreuve villageoise (1785) to the See also:music of See also:Gretry. La Femme jalouse, a five-See also:act See also:comedy in See also:verse (1785), Joconde (1790) for the music of See also:Louis Jaden, See also:Les Epoux divorces (1799), a comedy, and other pieces followed. Desforges was one of the first to avail himself of the new facilities afforded under the Revolution for See also:divorce and re-See also:marriage. The curious See also:record of his own See also:early indiscretions in Le Poete, ou memoires d'un homme de lettres gaits See also:par lui-meme (4 vols., 1798) is said to have been undertaken at the See also:request of Madame Desforges. He died in Paris on the 13th of See also:August 18o6.

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