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LOUIS ABEL BEFFROY DE REIGNY (1757–1811)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:ABEL BEFFROY DE REIGNY (1757–1811)  , See also:French dramatist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Laon on the 6th of See also:November 1757 . Under the name of " See also:Cousin Jacques " he founded a periodical called See also:Les Lunes (1785–1787) . The Courrier See also:des planetes ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le See also:firmament (1788–1792) followed . Nicodeme clans la Lune, ou la revolution pacifique (1790) a three-See also:act See also:farce, is said to have had more than four See also:hundred representations . In spite of his protests against the evils of the Revolution he escaped interference through the See also:influence of his See also:brother, See also:Louis See also:Etienne Beffroy, who was a member of the See also:Convention . Of La Petite Nanette (1795) and several other operas he wrote both the words and the See also:music . His Dictionnaire neologique (3 vols., 1795–1800) of the See also:chief actors and events in the Revolution was interdicted by the See also:police and remained incomplete . Beffroy spent his last years in retirement, dying in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:December 181 r .

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