CLAUDE JOSEPH DORAT (1734-1780)
, French man of letters, was born in Paris on the 31st of December 1734
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He belonged to a family whose members had for generations been lawyers, and he entered the corps of the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
's musketeers
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He obtained a great vogue by his Reponse d'Abailard a Heloise, and followed up this first success with a number of heroic epistles, Les Victimes de l'amour, ou lettres de quelques amants celebres (1776)
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Dorat was possessed by an ambition quite out of proportion to his very mediocre ability
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Besides light verse he wrote comedies, fables and, among other novels, Les Sacrifices de l'amour, ou lettres de la vicomtesse de Senanges et du chevalier de Versenay (1771)
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He tried to cover his failures as a dramatist by buying up a great number of seats, and his books were lavishly illustrated by good artists and expensively produced, to secure their success
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He was maladroit enough to draw down on himself the hatred both of the philosophe party and of their arch-enemy Charles Palissot, and thus cut himself off from the possibility of academic honours
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Le Tartufe litteraire (1777) attacked La Harpe and Palissot, and at the same See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
D' Alembert and Mlle de Lespinasse
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Dorat died on the 29th of April 178o in Paris
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See G
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Desnoireterres, Le Chevalier Dorat et les pokes le' gers au X VIII' siecle (1887)
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For the bibliographical value of his works, see See also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
, Guide de l' amateur de livres a figures et a vignettes du X VIII sit cle ( editions of Ch
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Mehl, 1876, and R
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Portalis, 1887)
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