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LEMIERRE, ANTOINE MARIN (1733—1i93)

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LEMIERRE, See also:ANTOINE MARIN (1733—1i93) , See also:French dramatist and poet, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:January 1733. His parents were poor, but Lemierre found a See also:patron in the See also:collector-See also:general of taxes, See also:Dupin, whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the See also:stage with Hypermnestre (1758); Teree (1761) and Idomenee (1764) failed on See also:account of the subjects. Artaxerce, modelled on See also:Metastasio, and See also:Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de See also:Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784). Lemierre revived Guillaume Tell in 1786 with enormous success. After the Revolution he professed See also:great remorse for the See also:production of a See also:play inculcating revolutionary principles, and there is no doubt that the horror of the excesses he witnessed hastened his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 4th of See also:July 1793. He had been admitted to the See also:Academy in 1781. Lemierre published La Peinture (1769), based on a Latin poem by the See also:abbe de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos, See also:Les Fastes, ou les usages de l'annee (1779), an unsatisfactory See also:imitation of See also:Ovid's See also:Fasti. His Euvres (181o) contain a See also:notice of Lemierre by R. Perrin. and his Euvres choisies (1811) one by F. Fayolle.

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