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JULIEN LOUIS GEOFFROY (1743-1814)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIEN See also:LOUIS See also:GEOFFROY (1743-1814)  , See also:French critic, was See also:born at See also:Rennes in 1743 . He studied in the school of his native See also:town and at the See also:College See also:Louis le See also:Grand in See also:Paris . He took orders and fulfilled for some See also:time the humble functions of an See also:usher, eventually becoming See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at the College See also:Mazarin . A See also:bad tragedy, Caton, was accepted at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais, but was never acted . On the See also:death of See also:Elie See also:Freron in 1776 the other collaborators in the Annee litteraire asked See also:Geoffroy to succeed him, and he conducted the See also:journal until in 1792 it ceased to appear . Geoffroy was a See also:bitter critic of See also:Voltaire and his followers, and made for himself many enemies . An enthusiastic royalist, he published with Freron's See also:brother-in-See also:law, the See also:abbe See also:Thomas Royou (1741-1792), a journal, L'Ami du roi (1790-1792), which possibly did more harm than See also:good to the See also:king's cause by its See also:ill-advised partisanship . During the Terror Geoffroy hid in the neighbourhood of Paris, only returning in 1799 . An See also:attempt to revive the Annee litteraire failed, and Geoffroy undertook the dramatic See also:feuilleton of the Journal See also:des debats . His scathing criticisms had a success of notoriety, but their popularity was ephemeral, and the publication of them (5 vols., 1819-182o) as Cours de litterature dramatique proved a failure . He was also the author of a perfunctory Commentaire on the See also:works of See also:Racine prefixed to See also:Lenormant's edition (1808) . He died in Paris on the 27th of.See also:February 1814 .

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