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 SEBASTIEN See also:

• MERCIER, HONORE (184o—,894)
• LOUIS SEBASTIEN MERCIER (1740-1814)

MERCIER (1740-1814)  , See also:

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

French dramatist and See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous writer, 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 6th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1740 . He began his See also:

• LITERARY

literary career by See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing heroic epistles, but See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early came to the conclusion that Boileau and See also:

• RACINE
• RACINE, JEAN (1639-1699)
• RACINE, LOUIS (1692-1763)

Racine had ruined the French See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and that the true poet was he who wrote in See also:

• PROSE

prose . The most important of his miscellaneous See also:

• WORKS

works are L' An 2440 (1770) ; L'Essai sur fart dramatique (1773); Neologie (18or); Le Tableau de Paris (1781–1788); Le nouveau Paris (1799); Histoire de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (1802) and See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

Satire contre Racine et Boileau (18o8) . He decried French tragedy as a See also:

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

caricature of See also:

• ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique and See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign customs in bombastic See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and advocated the comedic larmoyante as understood by See also:

• DIDEROT, DENIS (1713-1784)

Diderot . To the philosophers he was entirely hostile . He denied that See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science had made any real advance; he even carried his conservatism so far as to maintain that the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth was a circular See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain around which revolved the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun . See also:

• MERCIER, HONORE (184o—,894)
• MERCIER, LOUIS SEBASTIEN (1740-1814)

Mercier wrote some sixty dramas, among which may be mentioned See also:

• JEAN

Jean Hennuyer (1772); La Destruction de la ligue (1782); Jenneval (1769); Le See also:

• JUGE, BOFFILLE DE (d. 1502)

Juge (1774) ; Natalie (1775) and La Brouette du vinaigrier (1775) . In politics he was a Moderate, and as a member of the See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention he voted against the See also:

• DEATH

death See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty for 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 XVI . During the Terror he was imprisoned, but was released after the fall of See also:

• ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIEN FRANCOIS MARIE ISIDORE DE (175$-1794)

Robespierre . He died in Paris on the 25th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1814 . See See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon Bechard, Sebastien Mercier, sa See also:

• VIE

vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1903); R . See also:

• DOUMIC, RENE (186o– )

Doumic in the Revue See also:

• DES

des deux mondes (15th See also:

• JULY

July 1903) .