Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix
French writer and playwright
Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix
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5 February 1698
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25 August 1776
(1776-08-25)
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78)
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Other names | Writer, playwright |
Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix (5 February 1698 – 25 August 1776) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright .
Life
He served with the musketeers until he was 36, distinguishing himself at Guastalla 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 . The jurist Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc was his brother.
Works
- Pandore (1721)
- Lettres d’une Turque à Paris (1730), in imitation of the Persian Letters 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 fer (1768)
Sources
- Jean de Viguerie, Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières , Robert Laffont , "Bouquins" collection, Paris, 1995 ISBN 2-221-04810-5
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