ANTOINE MARIN

See also:

• ANTOINE MARIN LEMIERRE (1733—1i93)

LEMIERRE (1733—1i93)  , French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris on the 12th of January 1733 . His parents were poor, but Lemierre found a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became . Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre (1758); Teree (1761) and Idomenee (1764) failed on account of the subjects . Artaxerce, modelled on Metastasio, and Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784) . Lemierre revived Guillaume Tell in 1786 with enormous success . After the Revolution he professed great remorse for the production of a play inculcating revolutionary principles, and there is no doubt that the horror of the excesses he witnessed hastened his death, which took place on the 4th of July 1793 . He had been admitted to the Academy in 1781 . Lemierre published La Peinture (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbe de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos, Les Fastes, ou les usages de l'annee (1779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti . His Euvres (181o) contain a notice of Lemierre by R . Perrin. and his Euvres choisies (1811) one by F . Fayolle .