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See also:VICTOR See also:JOSEPH See also:ETIENNE DE See also:JOUY (1764-1846)
, See also:French dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Jouy, near See also:Versailles, on the 12th of See also:September 1764
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At the See also:age of eighteen he received a See also:commission in the See also:army, and sailed for See also:South See also:America in the See also:company of the See also:governor of See also:Guiana
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He returned almost immediately to See also:France to See also:complete his studies, and re-entered the service two years later
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He was sent to See also:India, where he met with many romantic adventures which were afterwards turned to See also:literary See also:account
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On the outbreak of the Revolution he returned to France and served with distinction in the See also:early See also:campaigns, attaining the See also:rank of See also:adjutant-See also:general
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He See also:drew suspicion on himself, however, by refusing to See also:honour the See also:toast of See also:Marat, and had to See also:fly for his See also:life
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At the fall of the Terror he resumed hiscommission but again See also:fell under suspicion, being accused of treasonable See also:correspondence with the See also:English See also:envoy, See also: In 1821 his tragedy of Sylla gained a See also:triumph due in See also:part to the See also:genius of See also:Talma, who had studied the title-role from See also:Napoleon . Under the Restoration Jouy consistently fought for the cause of freedom, and if his See also:work was overrated by his contemporaries, they were probably influenced by their respect for the author himself . He died in rooms set apart for his use in the See also:palace of St Germain-en-Laye on the 4th of September 1846 . Out of the See also:long See also:list of his operas, tragedies and See also:miscellaneous writings may be mentioned, Fernand Cortez (1809), opera, in collaboration with J . E . Esmenard, music by Spontini; Tippo Saib, tragedy (1813); Belisaire, tragedy (1818); Les Hermites en See also:prison (1823), written in collaboration with See also:Antoine See also:Jay, like himself a See also:political prisoner; See also:Guillaume Tell (1829), with Hippolyte Bis, for the music of See also:Rossini . Jouy was also one of the founders of the Biographie nouvelle See also:des contemporains . |
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