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See also:RAYNOUARD, See also:FRANCOIS JUSTE See also:MARIE (1761-1836) , See also:French dramatist and savant, was See also:born at See also:Brignoles (See also:Provence), on the 8th of See also:September 1761. He was educated for the See also:bar and practised at Draguignan. In 1791 he went to See also:Paris as See also:deputy to the Legislative See also:Assembly, but after the fall of the See also:Girondists, to whose party he was attached, he had to go into hiding. He was, however, discovered and imprisoned in Paris. During his imprisonment he wrote his See also:play Caton d' Utique (1794). Eleonore de Bavieres and See also:Les Templiers were accepted by the Comedie Francaise. Les Templiers was produced in 18o5, and, in spite of the protests of See also:Geoffroy, had a See also:great success Raynouard was admitted to the See also:Academy in 1807, and from 1817 to 1826 he was perpetual secretary. He wrote other plays, in one of which, Les Etats de See also:Blois (acted 181o), he gave offence to See also:Napoleon by his freedom of speech, but, realizing that the public See also:taste had changed and that the romanticists were to See also:triumph, he abandoned the See also:stage and gave himself up to linguistic studies. He was admitted to the Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1815. His researches into the Provencal See also:dialect were somewhat inexact, but his See also:enthusiasm and per-severance promoted the study of the subject. His See also:chief See also:works are Choix de poesies originales See also:des troubadours (6 vols., 1816-1821), of which the See also:sixth See also:volume, Grammaire comparee des langues de l'See also:Europe latine Bans leurs See also:rap ports avec la langue des troubadours (1821), was separately published; Lexique See also:roman (6 vols., 1838-1844). He spent the last years of his See also:life at Passy, where he died on the 27th of See also:October 1836. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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