PHILIPPE See also:

• PHILIPPE DESTOUCHES (168o-1754)

DESTOUCHES (168o-1754)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French dramatist, whose real name was Nericault, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• TOURS

Tours in See also:

• APRIL

April 1680 . When he was nineteen years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he became secretary to M. de Puysieux, the French See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland . In 1716 he was attached to the French See also:

• EMBASSY

embassy in See also:

• LONDON

London, where he remained for six years under the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

abbe See also:

• DUBOIS
• DUBOIS, FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE (1837– )
• DUBOIS, GUILLAUME (1656–1723)
• DUBOIS, JEAN ANTOINE (1765-1848)
• DUBOIS, PAUL (1829-1905)
• DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312)

Dubois . He contracted with a See also:

• LANCASHIRE

Lancashire See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady, Dorothea See also:

• JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871)
• JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (1587-1641)
• JOHNSTON, J
• JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891)
• JOHNSTON, SIR HENRY HAMILTON (1858- )

Johnston, a See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage which was not avowed for some years . He See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew a picture later of his own domestic circumstances in Le Philosophe See also:

• MARIE

marie (1726) . On his return to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (1723) he was elected to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, and in 1727 he acquired considerable estates, the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of which conferred the privileges of See also:

• NOBILITY

nobility . He spent his later years at his See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of Fortoiseau near See also:

• MELUN

Melun, dying on the 4th of See also:

• JULY

July 1754 . His See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early comedies were: Le Curieux Impertinent (1710), L'Ingrat (1712), L'Irresolu (1713) and Le Medisant (1715) . The best, of these is L'Irresolu, in which Dorante, after hesitating throughout the See also:

• PLAY

play between Julie and Celimene, marries Julie, but concludes the play with the reflection: " J'aurais mieux fait, je crois, d'epouser Celimene." After eleven years of See also:

• DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service See also:

• DESTOUCHES, PHILIPPE (168o-1754)

Destouches returned to the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage with the Philosophe marie (1727), followed in 1732 by his masterpiece Le Glorieux, a picture of the struggle then beginning between the old nobility and the wealthy parvenus who found their opportunity in the poverty of France . Destouches wished to revive the See also:

• COMEDY

comedy of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character as understood by See also:

• MOLIERE (1622-1673)

Moliere, but he thought it desirable that the moral should be directly expressed . This moralizing tendency spoilt his later comedies . Among them may be mentioned: Le See also:

• TAMBOUR (Fr. for " drum " )

Tambour nocturne (1736), La Force du naturel (1750) and Le Dissipaleur (1736) .

His See also:

• WORKS

works were issued in collected See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in 1755, 1757, 1811 and, in a limited edition (6 vols.), 1822 .