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JEAN BAPTISTE PIGALLE (1714-1785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 595 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:PIGALLE (1714-1785)  , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 26th of See also:January 1714 . He was the seventh See also:child of a See also:carpenter . Although he failed to obtain the See also:grand prix, after a severe struggle he entered the See also:Academy and became one of the most popular sculptors of his See also:day . His earlier See also:work, such as " Child with Cage " (See also:model at Sevres) and " See also:Mercury Fastening his Sandals " (See also:Berlin, and See also:lead See also:cast in Louvre), is less See also:commonplace than that of his maturer years, but his nude statue of See also:Voltaire, dated 1776 (Institut), and his tombs of See also:Comte d'See also:Harcourt (c . 1764) (Notre See also:Dame) and of See also:Marshal See also:Saxe, completed in 1777 (Lutheran See also:church, See also:Strassburg), are See also:good specimens of French See also:sculpture in the 18th See also:century . He died on the 28th of See also:August 1785 . See P . Tarbe, See also:Vie et ieuv. de See also:Pigalle (1859) ; Suard, Eloge de Pigalle; Melanges de litterature . PIGAULT-See also:LEBRUN (PIGAULT DE L'EPINOY), See also:CHARLES See also:ANTOINE See also:GUILLAUME (1753-1835), French novelist, was born at See also:Calais (he is said to have traced his See also:pedigree on the See also:mother's See also:side to Eustache de St See also:Pierre) on the 8th of See also:April 1753 . His youth was stormy . He twice carried off See also:young ladies of some position, and was in consequence twice imprisoned by lettre de cachet . The first, a See also:Miss See also:Crawford, the daughter of an See also:English See also:merchant whose See also:office Pigault had entered, died almost immediately after her elopement; the second, Mlle de Salens, he married .

He became a soldier in the See also:

Queen's See also:Guards, then a very unsuccessful actor, and a teacher of French . At the breaking out of the See also:great See also:war he re-enlisted and fought at Valmy . He wrote more than twenty plays, and a large number of novels, the first of which appeared in 1787 . In his old See also:age he took to graver work, and executed an abridgement of French See also:history in eight volumes, besides some other work . His fEuvres completes were published in twenty volumes between 1822 and 1824, but much of his work is subsequent to this collection . He died on the 24th of . See also:July 1835 . The See also:style of Pigault's novels is insignificant, and their morality very far from severe . As almost the See also:father of a See also:kind of literature which later See also:developed enormously, Pigault-Lebrun deserves a certain See also:place in See also:literary history . Among the most celebrated of his novels may be mentioned L'Enfant du Carnaval (1792) and Angelique et Jeanne-ton de la place Maubert (1799) . His Citateur (2 vols., 1803), a collection of quotations against See also:Christianity, was forbidden and yet several times reprinted .

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