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EGLANTINE, PHILIPPE See also:FRANCOIS NAZAIRE (1750-1794), See also:French dramatist and revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Carcassonne on the 28th of See also:July 1750. His real name was See also:simple Fabre, the " d'Iglantine " being added in See also:commemoration of his receiving the See also:golden eglantine of Clemence Isaure from the See also:academy of the floral See also:games at See also:Toulouse. After travelling through the provinces as an actor, he came to See also:Paris, and produced an unsuccessful See also:comedy entitled See also:Les Gens de lettres, ou le provincial a Paris (1787). A tragedy, See also:Augusta, produced at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais, was also a failure. One only of his plays, Philinte, ou la See also:suite du Misanthrope (1790), still preserves its reputation. It professes to be a continuation of See also:Moliere's Misanthrope, but the See also:hero of the piece is of a different See also:character from - the nominal prototype—an impersonation, indeed, of pure and simple egotism. On its publication the See also:play was introduced by a See also:preface, in which the author mercilessly satirizes the Optimiste of his See also:rival J. F. See also:Collin d'Harleville, whose Chateaux en Espagne had gained the See also:applause which Fabre's Presomptueux (1789) had failed to win. The character of Philinte had much See also:political significance. Alceste received the highest praise, and evidently represents the See also:citizen patriot, while Philinte is a dangerous aristocrat in disguise. Fabre was See also:president and secretary of the See also:club of the See also:Cordeliers, and belonged also to the Jacobin club.

He was chosen by See also:

Danton as his private secretary, and sat in the See also:National See also:Convention. He voted for the See also:king's See also:death, supporting the maximum and the See also:law of the suspected, and he was a See also:bitter enemy of the Girondins. After the death of See also:Marat he published a Portrait de l'Ami du Peuple. On the abolition of the Gregorian See also:calendar he sat on the See also:committee entrusted with the formation of the republican substitute, and to him was due a large See also:part of the new nomenclature, with its poetic Prairial and Floreal, its prosaic Primidi and Duodi. The See also:report which he made on the subject, on the 24th of See also:October, has some scientific value. On the 12th of See also:January 1794 he was arrested by See also:order of the committee of public safety on a See also:charge of malversation and See also:forgery in connexion with the affairs of the Compagnie See also:des Indes. Documents still existing prove that the charge was altogether groundless. During his trial Fabre showed the greatest calmness and sang his own well-known See also:song of Il pleut, it pleut, bergire, rentre tes blancs moutons. He was guillotined on the 5th of See also:April 1794. On his way to the See also:scaffold he distributed his See also:manuscript poems to the See also:people. A See also:posthumous play, Les Precepteurs, steeped with the doctrines of See also:Rousseau's Emile, was performed on the 17th of See also:September 1794, and met with an enthusiastic reception. Among Fabre's other plays are the See also:gay and successful Convalescent de qualite (1791), and L'Intrigue epistolaire (1791).

In the latter play Fabre is supposed to have See also:

drawn a portrait .of the painter See also:Jean See also:Baptiste See also:Greuze. The author's U2uvres melees et posthumes were published at Paris 1802, 2 vols. See See also:Albert Maurin, Galerie Kist. de la Revolution francaise, tome II; Jules See also:Janin, Hist. de la lilt. dram. ; See also:Chenier, Tableau de la tilt. francaise; F. A. See also:Aulard in the Nouvelle Revue (July 1885).

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