Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix
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Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix (February 1698, Rennes - 25 August 1776) was a French writer and playwright.
in 1734. He then left the army and purchased a post as "maître des eaux et forêts" in Rennes. He published his first comedy, Pandore, in 1721 and from 1740 devoted himself entirely to writing, setting up in Paris and becoming a fashionable author there. He wrote 20 comedies in all.
In 1764 he was made historian of the ordre du Saint-Esprit. He was the brother of the jurist Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc.
Life
He served with the musketeers until he was 36, distinguishing himself at GuastallaGuastalla
Guastalla is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.-Geography:Guastalla is situated in the Po Valley, and lies on the banks of the Po River...
in 1734. He then left the army and purchased a post as "maître des eaux et forêts" in Rennes. He published his first comedy, Pandore, in 1721 and from 1740 devoted himself entirely to writing, setting up in Paris and becoming a fashionable author there. He wrote 20 comedies in all.
In 1764 he was made historian of the ordre du Saint-Esprit. He was the brother of the jurist Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc.
Works
- Pandore (1721)
- Lettres d’une Turque à Paris (1730), in imitation of the Persian LettersPersian LettersPersian Letters is a literary work by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France.-Plot summary:...
by Montesquieu - reissued under the titles Lettres de Nedim Koggia (1732) and Lettres turques (1760) - L’Oracle (1740)
- Deucalion et Pyrrha (1741)
- L’Île sauvage (1743)
- Le Sylphe (1743)
- Les Grâces (1744)
- Julie (1746)
- Egérie (1747)
- Les Veuves turques (1747)
- Les Métaphores (1748)
- La Colonie (1749)
- Le Rival supposé (1749)
- Les Hommes (1753)
- Essais historiques sur Paris, 5 vol. (London, 1754–1757)
- Le Financier (1761)
- Origine de la Maison de France (1761)
- Histoire de l’Ordre du Saint-Esprit (1767)
- Lettres au sujet de l’homme au masque de ferMan in the Iron MaskThe Man in the Iron Mask is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol . He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of 34 years...
(1768)
Sources
- Jean de Viguerie, Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières, Robert LaffontÉditions Robert LaffontÉditions Robert Laffont is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by Robert Laffont. Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada and in Belgium....
, "Bouquins" collection, Paris, 1995 ISBN 2221048105