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

LOUIS See also:

• JEAN

JEAN NEPOMUCENE See also:

• LOUIS JEAN NEPOMUCENE LEMERCIER (1771–1840)

LEMERCIER (1771–1840)  , See also:

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

French poet and dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 21St of See also:

• APRIL

April 1771 . His See also:

• FATHER

father had been See also:

• INTENDANT (from Lat. intendens, pres. part. of intendere, to apply the mind to, to watch over; cf. " superintendent ")

intendant successively to the duc de Penthievre, the See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de See also:

• TOULOUSE
• TOULOUSE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON, COUNT OF (1678-1737)

Toulouse and the unfortunate princesse de See also:

• LAMBALLE
• LAMBALLE, MARIE THERESE LOUISE OF SAVOYCARIGNANO, PRINCESSE DE (1749-1792)

Lamballe, who was the boy's godmother . See also:

• LEMERCIER, LOUIS JEAN NEPOMUCENE (1771–1840)

Lemercier showed See also:

• GREAT

great precocity; before he was sixteen his tragedy of Meleagre was produced at the Tlzedtre See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois . Clarissa Harlowe (1792) provoked the See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism that the author was not asset roue pour peindre See also:

• LES

les roueries . Le Tartufe revolutionnaire, a See also:

• PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a song sung beside, a comic parallel)

parody full of the most audacious See also:

• POLITICAL

political allusions, was suppressed after the fifth See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation . In 1795 appeared Lemercier's masterpiece See also:

• AGAMEMNON

Agamemnon, called by See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Labitte the last great See also:

• ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique tragedy in French literature . It was a great success, but was violently attacked later by See also:

• GEOFFROY
• GEOFFROY, ETIENNE FRANCOIS (1672-1731)
• GEOFFROY, JULIEN LOUIS (1743-1814)

Geoffroy, who stigmatized it as a See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• CARICATURE (Ital. caricatura, i.e. "ritratto ridicolo," from caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. charge)

caricature of See also:

• CREBILLON, PROSPER JOLYOT DE (1674-1762)

Crebillon .