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See also:MERCIER, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS SEBASTIEN (1740-1814) , See also:French dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 6th of See also:June 1740. He began his See also:literary career by See also:writing heroic epistles, but See also:early came to the conclusion that Boileau and See also:Racine had ruined the French See also:language, and that the true poet was he who wrote in See also:prose. The most important of his miscellaneous See also:works are L' An 2440 (1770) ; L'Essai sur fart dramatique (1773); Neologie (18or); Le Tableau de Paris (1781–1788); Le nouveau Paris (1799); Histoire de See also:France (1802) and See also:Satire contre Racine et Boileau (18o8). He decried French tragedy as a See also:caricature of See also:antique and See also:foreign customs in bombastic See also:verse, and advocated the comedic larmoyante as understood by See also:Diderot. To the philosophers he was entirely hostile. He denied that See also:modern See also:science had made any real advance; he even carried his conservatism so far as to maintain that the See also:earth was a circular See also:flat See also:plain around which revolved the See also:sun. Mercier wrote some sixty dramas, among which may be mentioned See also:Jean Hennuyer (1772); La Destruction de la ligue (1782); Jenneval (1769); Le See also:Juge (1774) ; Natalie (1775) and La Brouette du vinaigrier (1775). In politics he was a Moderate, and as a member of the See also:Convention he voted against the See also:death See also:penalty for Louis XVI. During the Terror he was imprisoned, but was released after the fall of See also:Robespierre. He died in Paris on the 25th of See also:April 1814.
See See also:Leon Bechard, Sebastien Mercier, sa See also:vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1903); R. See also:Doumic in the Revue See also:des deux mondes (15th See also:July 1903).
End of Article: MERCIER, LOUIS SEBASTIEN (1740-1814)
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