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PIGALLE, JEAN BAPTISTE (1714-1785)

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PIGALLE, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1714-1785) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 26th of See also:January 1714. He was the seventh See also:child of a See also:carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the See also:grand prix, after a severe struggle he entered the See also:Academy and became one of the most popular sculptors of his See also:day. His earlier See also:work, such as " Child with Cage " (See also:model at Sevres) and " See also:Mercury Fastening his Sandals " (See also:Berlin, and See also:lead See also:cast in Louvre), is less See also:commonplace than that of his maturer years, but his nude statue of See also:Voltaire, dated 1776 (Institut), and his tombs of See also:Comte d'See also:Harcourt (c. 1764) (Notre See also:Dame) and of See also:Marshal See also:Saxe, completed in 1777 (Lutheran See also:church, See also:Strassburg), are See also:good specimens of French See also:sculpture in the 18th See also:century. He died on the 28th of See also:August 1785. See P. Tarbe, See also:Vie et ieuv. de Pigalle (1859) ; Suard, Eloge de Pigalle; Melanges de litterature. PIGAULT-See also:LEBRUN (PIGAULT DE L'EPINOY), See also:CHARLES See also:ANTOINE See also:GUILLAUME (1753-1835), French novelist, was born at See also:Calais (he is said to have traced his See also:pedigree on the See also:mother's See also:side to Eustache de St See also:Pierre) on the 8th of See also:April 1753. His youth was stormy. He twice carried off See also:young ladies of some position, and was in consequence twice imprisoned by lettre de cachet. The first, a See also:Miss See also:Crawford, the daughter of an See also:English See also:merchant whose See also:office Pigault had entered, died almost immediately after her elopement; the second, Mlle de Salens, he married.

He became a soldier in the See also:

Queen's See also:Guards, then a very unsuccessful actor, and a teacher of French. At the breaking out of the See also:great See also:war he re-enlisted and fought at Valmy. He wrote more than twenty plays, and a large number of novels, the first of which appeared in 1787. In his old See also:age he took to graver work, and executed an abridgement of French See also:history in eight volumes, besides some other work. His fEuvres completes were published in twenty volumes between 1822 and 1824, but much of his work is subsequent to this collection. He died on the 24th of. See also:July 1835. The See also:style of Pigault's novels is insignificant, and their morality very far from severe. As almost the See also:father of a See also:kind of literature which later See also:developed enormously, Pigault-Lebrun deserves a certain See also:place in See also:literary history. Among the most celebrated of his novels may be mentioned L'Enfant du Carnaval (1792) and Angelique et Jeanne-ton de la place Maubert (1799). His Citateur (2 vols., 1803), a collection of quotations against See also:Christianity, was forbidden and yet several times reprinted.

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