See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• JEAN FRANCOIS MARMONTEL (1723-1799)

MARMONTEL (1723-1799)  , See also:

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

French writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of poor parents at See also:

• BORT, or BOART

Bort, in See also:

• CANTAL

Cantal, on the 11th of See also:

• JULY

July 1723 . After studying with the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits at See also:

• MAURIAC

Mauriac, he taught in their colleges at Clermont and See also:

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

Toulouse; and in 1745, acting on the See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice of See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire, he set out for 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 to try for See also:

• LITERARY

literary honours . From 1748 to 1753 he wrote a See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of tragedies which,' though only moderately successful on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, secured the See also:

• ADMISSION

admission of the author to literary and fashionable circles . He wrote for the Encyclopedie a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of articles evincing considerable See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and insight, which in their collected See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Elements de Lilteralure, still See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank among the French Denys le Tyran (1748) ; Aristomene (1749) ; Cleopdtre (1750) ; Heraelides (1752) ; Egyptus (1753) . See also:

• MARMOSET

MARMOSET 745 See also:

• CLASSICS

classics . He also wrote several comic operas, the two best of which probably are Sylvain (1770) and Zemire et Azore (1771) . In the See also:

• GLUCK

Gluck-Piccini controversy he was an eager See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan of Piccini with whom he collaborated in See also:

• DIDON, HENRI (1840-1900)

Didon (1783) and See also:

• PENELOPE

Penelope (1785) . In 1758 he gained the patronage of Madame de See also:

• POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON LE NORMANT

Pompadour, who obtained for him a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place as a See also:

• CIVIL

civil servant, and the management of the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal Le Mercure, in which he had already begun the famous series ,of Contes moraux . The merit of these tales lies partly in the delicate finish of the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, but mainly in the graphic and charming pictures of French society under 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 XV . The author was elected to the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy in 1763 . In 1767 he published a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, Belisaire, now remark-able only on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of a See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter on religious See also:

• TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration which incurred the censure of the See also:

• SORBONNE

Sorbonne and the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of Paris . See also:

• MARMONTEL, JEAN FRANCOIS (1723-1799)

Marmontel retorted in See also:

• LES

Les Incas (1778) by tracing the cruelties in See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• AMERICA

America to the religious fanaticism of the invaders .

He was appointed historiographer of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (1771), secretary to the Academy (1783), and See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• HISTORY

history in the Lycee (1786) . In his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of historiographer Marmontel wrote a history of the regency (1788) which is of little value . Reduced to poverty by the Revolution, Marmontel in 1792 retired during the Terror to See also:

• EVREUX

Evreux, and soon after to a cottage at Abloville in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• EURE

Eure . To that See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat we owe his Memoires d'un pere (4 vols., 1804) giving a picturesque See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review of his whole See also:

• LIFE

life, a literary history of two important reigns, a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery of portraits extending from the See also:

• VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

venerable See also:

• MASSILLON
• MASSILLON, JEAN BAPTISTE (1663-1742)

Massillon, whom more than See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century previously he had seen at Clermont, to See also:

• MIRABEAU, ANDRE BONIFACE LOUIS RIQUETI, VICOMTE DE (1754-1792)
• MIRABEAU, HONORS GABRIEL RIQUETI, COMTE DE (1749-1791)
• MIRABEAU, VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE (1715-1789)

Mirabeau . The See also:

• BOOK

book was nominally written for the instruction of his See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children . It contains an exquisitely See also:

• DRAWN

drawn picture of his own childhood in the See also:

• LIMOUSIN (Lat. Pagus Lemovicinus, ager Lemovicensis, regio Lemovicum, Lemozinum, Limosinium, &c.)
• LIMOUSIN (or LIMOSIN), LEONARD (c. 1505-c. 1577)

Limousin; its value for the literary historian is very great . Marmontel lived for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time under the roof of Mme See also:

• GEOFFRIN, MARIE THERESE RODET (1699-1777)

Geoffrin, and was See also:

• PRESENT

present at her famous dinners given to artists; he was, indeed, an habitue of most of the houses where the encyclopaedists met . He had thus at his command the best material for his portraits, and made See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good use of his opportunities . After a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stay in Paris when elected in 1797 to the Conseil See also:

• DES

des Anciens, he died on the 31st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1799 at Abloville . See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, iv.; See also:

• MORELLET, ANDRE (1727-1819)

Morellet, Eloge (1805) .