Desfontaines-Lavallée
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François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733, Caen
- 25 November 1825, Paris), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright
Before the French Revolution
he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He cooperated in the publication of the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des romans (New Library of Novels) and wrote several novels himself, including Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de *** (1765).
Alone or in co-operation with Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet
, he put on several plays, including :
He was one of the founders of the Dîners du Vaudeville and of the Dîners du Caveau.
Caen
Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....
- 25 November 1825, Paris), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright
Before the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He cooperated in the publication of the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des romans (New Library of Novels) and wrote several novels himself, including Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de *** (1765).
Alone or in co-operation with Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet
Jean-Baptiste Radet
Jean-Baptiste Radet was a French vaudevillist.Prior to the French Revolution, he worked in the library of the duchesse de Villeroy, allowing him to indulge his literary tastes...
, he put on several plays, including :
- L'Aveugle de Palmyre (1767)
- La Cinquantaine (1771)
- Isménor (1773)
- Le Mai (1776)
- L'Amant statue (1780)
- Le Droit du seigneur (1783)
- La Dot (1785)
- Vert-vert (1790)
- Arlequin afficheur (1792)
- La Chaste Suzanne (1793)
- La Fête de l'Égalité (1794)
- Le Rêve, ou la Colonne de Rosback (1806)
- M. Durelief (1810)
He was one of the founders of the Dîners du Vaudeville and of the Dîners du Caveau.
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Source
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 615-6