SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE CHARLES DUFRESNY (1648–1724)
, French dramatist, was born in Paris in 1648
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The allegation that his grandfather was an illegitimate son of 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)
IV. pro-cured him the liberal patronage of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
XIV., who gave him the post of valet de chambre, and affixed his name to many lucrative privileges
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Dufresny's expensive habits neutralized all efforts to enrich him, and as if to furnish a piquant commentary on the See also: - PROVERB (Lat. proverbium, from pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the Greek equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort)
that poverty makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows, he married, as his second wife, a washerwoman, in discharge of her bill—a whimsicality which supplied Le Sage with an episode in the Diable boiteux, and was made the subject of a comedy by J
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Deschamps ( Charles Riviere Dufresny, ou le mariage impromptu)
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He died in Paris on the 6th of October r 724
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His plays, destitute for the most part of all higher qualities, abound in sprightly wit and pithy sayings
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In the six volumes of his Thedtre (Paris, 1731), some of the best are L'Esprit de contradiction (1700), Le Double Veuvage (1701), La Joueuse (1709), La Coquette de village (1715), La Reconciliation normande (1719)
and Le Mariage fait et romps (1721)
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A volume of Poesies diverses, two volumes of Nouvelles historiques (1692), and Les Amusements serieux et comiques d'un Siamois (1705), a work to which Montesquieu was indebted for the idea of his Lettres persanes, complete the list of Dufresny's writings
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The best edition of his works is that of 1747 (4 vols.)
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His Theatre was edited (1882) by Georges d'Heylli
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