Gillet de La Tessonerie
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Gillet de La Tessonerie was a French playwright. Little of his life is known, though he is known to have been a member of the council of the Cour des Monnaies
in 1642 and to have written written 9 plays between 1640 and 1657.
Cour des monnaies
The Cour des monnaies was one of the sovereign courts of Ancien Régime France. It was set up in 1552. It and the other Ancien Régime tribunals were suppressed in 1791 after the French Revolution.- Origins :...
in 1642 and to have written written 9 plays between 1640 and 1657.
Selected works
- L'Art de Régner (The Art of Reigning) (1645) - a tragi-comedy, each of whose five acts forms a separate playlet
External links
- http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=bio&bookkey=310857